DU Magazine Fall 2018

FALL 2018

ENGAGING THE CREATIVE MIND

A HOME FOR THE A CALLING FOR U.S. NEWS &
CREATIVE SPIRIT CREATIVE WORK
WORLD REPORT
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IN ILLINOIS

The Magazine of Dominican University
Fall 2018

PRESIDENT

Donna M. Carroll

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FOR
EXTERNAL ENGAGEMENT

Leslie B. Rodriguez

CONTRIBUTING EDITORS

Jason Keyser
James Winters

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table of contents

Engaging the Creative Mind DU news

In this issue we explore Veritas as the inspiration for 3
Dominican’s Theatre Arts program, and how creativity fuels Dominican named # 1 Best
everything from ministry to MBAs. Guided by a passion Value in Illinois by U.S. News
for Caritas, programs and people set the stage for success. & World Report.

4
The Siena Center celebrates
15 years of exploring issues
of faith and scholarship.

5
Meet the recipients of the
Davlin and Bradford O’Neill
Awards.

6
Q&A with Hosffman Ospino,
PhD, this year’s Mazzuchelli

12 lecturer.

Romeo & Juliet: Where Caritas
and Veritas Converge

A behind-the-scenes look at how the theatre arts department explores
truth, and what we can learn from Shakespeare’s classic play.

16 7
Pulitzer Prize nominee,
My Life in Theatre Rukmini Callimachi shared
stories from the front lines
Three alumnae/i and a professor reflect on their successes in the creative world. as a current foreign
correspondent for The New
20 arts in photos. York Times.

A decade of theatre 8
The new MBA Gateway
program puts grad students
in the boardroom.

9
STEM programs get a big
boost with a grant from the
National Science
Foundation.

10
Women’s soccer has a star
in Josseline Williams; and
men’s volleyball went to the
Final Four.

departments 35

22 in sympathy

class news

Dominican Magazine FALL 2018 1

from the president

The sense of place and De ning Moments of Service
relationship that I dis-
covered at Rosary was On May 14, the Sinsinawa Dominican Sisters, the community that founded
unexpected and life
changing. I came for the Dominican University, presented their inaugural Cornerstones Award to
responsibility; I stayed
for the mission; and Donna M. Carroll, the university’s tenth president. The award honors four found-
Dominican University
and I grew up together. ing sisters—Clara, Ignatia, Josephine and Rachel—whose courage in adversity and

—President Donna M. Carroll commitment to mission made them “cornerstones” of the community. President

2 Dominican Magazine FALL 2018 Carroll accepted the award at the Sinsinawa Mound, the home base in southwestern

Wisconsin from which the sisters have ministered since 1847. These are

Dr. Carroll’s remarks.

ank you for the lovely acknowledgment—and for the privilege of sharing this
inaugural moment with you. It was 25 years ago that I accepted your invitation to
serve as the rst lay president of Rosary College. ere are not as many “ rsts” in
my life these days, so to be honored with the rst Cornerstones Award is as refresh-
ing as it is humbling. I am deeply grateful.

Samuel Mazzuchelli was an architect—of buildings and communities—so it is
not surprising that he would refer to the rst four vowed Sinsinawa Dominican Sis-
ters as “cornerstones,” or that he would see their fortitude as foundational. He could
not have foreseen, however, how one story would shape the character of a religious
community, or how, well into the future, that legacy would call others to de ning
moments of service.

In 1994, it was Prioress Kaye Ashe who spoke passionately to her Rosary College
board colleagues about the readiness of the community to appoint its rst lay
president. Not until the trustees were hanging my picture on the wall did I fully
understand the magnitude and generosity of that endorsement. I was so di er-
ent—and I am not just referring to wardrobe. Why me? I quietly wondered. And
then I discovered the story of the cornerstones—four young women stepping into
leadership. What they lacked in years and gravitas, they countered with resourceful-
ness, determination, and a deep and binding a ection. As I was deliberating about
the presidency, a colleague said to me, “Do not not do it out of fear.” He might just
as easily have said, “Providence will provide.”

e “choice to stay” has been a de ning factor in my life, as I suspect it was for
Clara, Ignatia, Josephine and Rachel almost 170 years ago. As I mentioned in my
2015 Mazzuchelli Lecture, I was not raised professionally to t in—or to stay put.
Quite the contrary, I was mentored to aspire high, achieve early and move on. So
the sense of place and relationship that I discovered at Rosary was unexpected and
life changing. I came for the responsibility; I stayed for the mission; and Dominican
University and I grew up together.

When asked about the vitality of the university today, I often say that Domin-
ican has “good bones.” And, while Father Samuel would delight in our beautifully
built campus, he would understand that the bones to which I refer are not structural,
but rather the traditions, values and stories that give meaning and resilience to our
work—and our lives.

President Carroll was honored for
modeling the hope, courage, vision
and faith embodied by the first four
sisters of the Sinsinawa Dominican
congregation.

Higher education today is facing a pe- Dominican scores record-high rankings among Midwest universities—
riod of enormous uncertainty and change, and leads the pack as the Best Value School in Illinois.
one that will test the foundation of our
Dominican academic community. As we Dominican University has achieved its highest This year’s rankings formula emphasized
struggle with di cult, often emotionally
charged decisions, and as I struggle with ever ranking in the prestigious annual study by outcomes and, for the first time, social mobility.
the weight of leadership, I am reminded of
the courage of the four cornerstones—and U.S. News & World Report. In a single year, it Dominican’s rankings reflect its strong perfor-
the purpose of a faith-based university.
jumped eight places to the Number 11 spot on mance in guiding high numbers of low-income
Truthfully, had it not been for the
integrating vision of feminism, justice and the publication’s list of students successfully to
mercy that I found among the Domini-
cans, I would not have the adult Catholic 165 regional universi- NUBMY TBHEERS graduation. The univer-
faith that I have today—or the sense of ties in the Midwest—a sity has made significant
presidential vocation and accomplishment. competitive category it investments in student
I stand on strong shoulders, embraced by shares with North Cen- advising and support
a loving community. tral College, Elmhurst through its new Division
College, Lewis University, of Student Success
In my “maturity” as president, I am
often asked to speak at the inauguration Saint Xavier University and Engagement. In an
of up-and-coming presidents. Let me end
these words as I often begin my ceremo- and 172 other institu- 1No. early sign of the impact,
nial remarks—with a mix of wisdom and tions, from Ohio to North freshman-to-sophomore
nostalgia. e inauguration of a president Dakota. Dominican is retention has risen 11
is an intimate moment in a crowded room,
a freefall into the heart of an institution. now the highest ranking BEST VALUE IN ILLINOIS percentage points over
When you stand up, with that medallion small university in the the past two years, to 83
around your neck, you are di erent. You
are connected to a larger purpose, respon- Chicago area. percent.
sible for the welfare of a community, and
truly humbled by the burden of hope. The 2019 “Best No1. 1 “I am delighted and
Colleges” review also proud to see Dominican
ank you for this extraordinary recog- recognized Dominican REGIONAL UNIVERSITY University excel across
nition. Your con dence and a ection are as the No.1 Best Value IN THE MIDWEST U.S. News & World Re-
the cornerstones of my presidency. School in Illinois for its port rankings this year,

combination of high TOP20 indicating the critical
academic quality and importance of inclusive
lower cost of attendance BEST UNDERGRADUATE TEACHING excellence in higher
to students and families, education today—that
after financial aid. The is, excellence that is

ranking reflects the uni- accessible, affordable,

versity’s determination to outcomes-oriented, and

ensure that academic commitment, not family anchored by quality teaching,” said President

wealth, opens its doors. More than 95% of Donna M. Carroll.

Dominican undergraduates receive financial aid.

Dominican Magazine FALL 2018 3

Short takes on a season at Dominican

The MBA Gateway The National Science Dominican’s Men’s
Experience is a tough Foundation awarded Volleyball team made it
first challenge for Dominican with a five-year to the NCAA Final Four.
new students. grant for STEM education.
PAGE ELEVEN
PAGE EIGHT PAGE NINE

‘Love Follows Knowledge’

For 15 years, the Siena Center has worked to reach audiences and
inform their understanding of Christian life in the modern world.

The St. Catherine of Siena Center embodies the full schedule, see events.dom.edu/siena-center) The

university’s determination to serve as a thought anniversary season will conclude on April 9 with the

leader in Dominican Catholic education. Established return to campus of Gregory Boyle, a Jesuit priest,

in 2003, the center spends each academic year the founder of Homeboy Industries in Los Angeles,

engaging critical issues of church and society within and a noted author. His latest book is Barking to the

Past Siena Center the contexts of scholarship and faith. It presents a Choir: The Radical Power of Kinship. “Human beings
Speakers Include
provocative series of lectures and courses that are are settlers, but not in the pioneer sense,” he writes.
Alice McDermott
Novelist and National Book open to anyone who wishes to deepen his or her “We settle for the fear-driven when love longs to

Award winner understanding of Christian life in the modern world. be our engine. We settle for a puny, vindictive God
Joan Chittister
Benedictine sister and To mark its 15th anniversary season, the center when we are being nudged always closer to this
outspoken advocate for justice,
is exploring the theme of “Embracing the Common wildly inclusive, larger-than-any-life God…. We settle
peace and equality
David Brooks Good.” Fall topics included healing faith, the chang- for the illusion of separation when we are endlessly
New York Times columnist and
author of The Road to Character ing role of Catholic universities, and the recurring call asked to enter into kinship with all.”

4 Dominican Magazine FALL 2018 of advent “to become what we pray.” Named for the Dominican

The center also launched Siena in the philosopher and theologian who is

City, a new initiative that deliberately honored as a Doctor of the Church,

expands its reach beyond the campus the Siena Center welcomes more

to the urban center. On October 3, the than 2,000 guests to campus each

Reverend Nadia Bolz-Weber, a Lutheran year. Previous speakers include Alice

pastor and best-selling author on McDermott, the novelist and National

spiritual themes, spoke to a sold-out Book Award winner; Joan Chittister,

crowd of more than 800 at Old St. the Benedictine sister and outspo-

Patrick’s Church in the West Loop. ken advocate for justice, peace and

She “walked alongside the crowd equality, especially for women; and

and shared the transformative power Nadia Bolz-Weber, Lutheran David Brooks, the New York Times
of finding the humanity in all of us,” Pastor and best-selling author. columnist and author of The Road to
an audience member said afterward, Character.

“using humor, honesty and theologi- “Saint Catherine of Siena herself

cal wisdom to invite us to reconsider the Christian once observed, ‘Love follows knowledge,’” says the

understanding of sin and mercy.” center’s director, Dr. Rachel Hart Winter. “I believe

The spring semester will bring lectures on spir- the Siena Center has become such a meaningful

ituality, health and justice; a “report card on health part of our patrons’ lives because we provide a

care”; and a mini-course on the power of collective unique opportunity to grow together in both knowl-

memory for reckoning with oppressive pasts. (For a edge and love.”

Caritas Veritas Symposium

“To Participate in the Creation of a
More Just and Humane World”

The university sums up its mission in 29 Chavella T. Pittman, a professor of
words: “As a Sinsinawa Dominican-spon-
sored institution, Dominican University sociology at Dominican, received the 2018
prepares students to pursue truth, to give Davlin Diversity Leadership Award.
compassionate service and to participate
in the creation of a more just and humane Pittman’s keen interest in social justice has
world.” Each year, the institution honors inspired her scholarship and teaching and
members of both the larger community has had a significant impact on campus life
and the faculty and staff whose work re- at Dominican. Since joining the university in
flects Dominican values, with two awards 2010, she has helped students and colleagues
presented at the Caritas Veritas Sympo- to better understand how discrimination,
sium on September 25th. microaggressions and intersectional biases
jeopardize the success and social mobility of
Sarita Brown, a national leader in Chavella T. Pittman, PhD marginalized persons.
Sarita Brown
advancing diversity in higher education for Raised in South Carolina and Ohio, Pittman
more than three decades, received the 2018 successful in life. The survey is one example grew up around both overt and covert racism;
Bradford O’Neill Medallion for Social Justice. of Excelencia’s data-driven, evidence-based and she found the latter to be the more toxic.
approach to evaluating Latino student success She saw how Shaker Heights, a Cleveland
In 2004, Brown founded Excelencia in in college and beyond. Dominican’s president, suburb intentionally designed to promote inte-
Education, which works to accelerate aca- Donna M. Carroll, is a member of Presidents gration, struggled with the difference between
demic achievement, improve retention and for Latino Student Success, an Excelencia- civic goals and practices. A perception of the
expand opportunities for low-income and sponsored organization. dissonance between what people believe and
minority college students. The organization how they behave has informed Pittman’s life
provides colleges and universities with effective The university established the medallion to and career.
strategies for recruiting and retaining Latino honor Sister Vincent Ferrer Bradford, OP, and
students, and works to advance public policies Sister Thomas Aquinas O’Neill, OP, pioneering An academically talented student, she
that support diversity in higher education. Rosary College professors who embraced tested into the highest levels of each of her
social justice through their scholarship and subjects—although many of her teachers
Like many Dominican students, Brown actions. The award is presented annually to assumed, because of racial stereotyping, that
was the first in her family to attend college. an individual or organization reflecting the she was in the wrong class. She was fortunate
The daughter of Mexican immigrants, she university’s mission of creating a more just and to have a mother and a high school teacher
received bachelor’s and master’s degrees from humane world. who fiercely advocated for her, ensuring that
the University of Texas at Austin. She started she remained in the advanced classes in which
her career leading minority recruitment efforts she belonged. The experience prompted a
at her alma mater, where she built a national lifelong commitment to advocating for margin-
model promoting minority success in graduate alized students.
education.
In Bridge to Careers, a Dominican course
In 1997, President Bill Clinton appointed she created and teaches every year, Pittman
Brown as the first executive director of the helps students develop concrete plans for their
White House Initiative for Educational Excel- professional lives and encourages them to find
lence for Hispanic Americans. She also served the resources within themselves and in their
as the founding president of the Hispanic communities to ensure that they achieve their
Scholarship Fund Institute, where she worked professional aspirations, regardless of ethnic
to advance federal support for Latino college identity or socioeconomic status.
and university students.
Dominican presents the Davlin Award an-
This year, Dominican is one of 12 Hispanic- nually to a member of the faculty or staff who
Serving Institutions participating in a national demonstrates the commitment to diversity,
survey by Excelencia in Education that seeks service and justice embodied by Sister Mary
to measure the degree to which Latino Clemente Davlin, OP, a revered, longtime pro-
graduates feel engaged in their careers and fessor of English who died in December 2017.
The award was established in 2003.

Dominican Magazine FALL 2018 5

‘At Stake Is
the Vibrancy of
Catholicism’

In November, Hosffman Ospino, a theologian underperforming public schools all their lives, Q: How would you describe Domini-
and Director of Graduate Programs in Hispanic the chances that they will succeed in Catholic can University’s place in this national
Ministry at Boston College, delivered the institutions diminish by the day. Once His- conversation?
annual Mazzuchelli Lecture. He discussed the panics are in our Catholic colleges, we must
promise and challenge of the rising generation create conditions of support that will ensure Dominican has made an intentional commit-
of students in Catholic higher education, which their success. ment, not only to react to the changing culture
includes many Hispanic students. Dominican and demographics of the Catholic Church in
is federally recognized as a Hispanic Serving Q: Many Hispanic college students the United States, but also to anticipate and
Institution. Here is an excerpt from an interview are second- and third-generation now. embrace the future. Not many universities
with Dr. Ospino. The full interview can be How do their needs differ from those would look at a community that struggles on a
found at events.dom.edu/mazzuchelli-ospino. of their parents or grandparents? large scale with poverty and migration issues
as a foundation to chart its future. Dominican
Q: What can Catholic universities do The immense majority are English-speaking has. That is brave and prophetic. What Domin-
to serve Hispanic students better? and understand well what it means to be a ican is doing reminds me of the earlier days of
member of U.S. society. Many have witnessed Catholic higher education in the United States.
We need to make sure that Hispanic young poverty, marginalization and discrimination. No one knew whether a college could survive
people are sincerely welcomed on our cam- Many have seen their parents and grandpar- serving immigrants and poor students. Yet,
puses. This requires a major strategy that ents mistreated for being immigrants or for many Catholic colleges in the earlier days, led
starts by partnering with parishes, dioceses, being Hispanic. They grow up negotiating by brave sisters and priests, knew that they
elementary schools and other organizations identities. The Catholic college community had to do the right thing, because that meant
to support Hispanic children from a very needs to understand these realities and inte- living the Catholic identity to its core. Today,
early age. If Hispanic children are attending grate its understanding into all programs and Hispanic-Serving Institutions lead with their
activities. prophetic example. At stake is the future and
vibrancy of Catholicism in the United States.

6 Dominican Magazine FALL 2018

FROM Rukmini Callimachi
THE
FRONT
LINES.

Pulitzer Prize finalist and New York
Times correspondent, Rukmini
Callimachi spoke on campus about ISIS
and the rise of terror organizations.

While serving as a foreign Few reporters have done more to explain and expose the evolution of the Islamic State than
correspondent for the West Rukmini Callimachi. The New York Times foreign correspondent took a short break from overseas
Africa bureau of the Associ- reporting in early October to discuss the growth and methods of the international terror network.
ated Press, she traveled to A three-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Callimachi delivered the third annual Georgie Anne
Timbuktu just after its libera- Geyer Lecture on October 2 and met with Dominican students the following morning before
tion from al-Qaeda. Search- resuming her reporting on the front lines of the fight against international terror.
ing the group’s headquarters,
she discovered thousands An expert on the Islamic State’s use of social media, Callimachi has gone beyond typical
of pages of documents left governmental sources to gain access to the inner world of jihadists. Her series, Caliphate—which
behind as the terrorists fled Esquire magazine ranked as the best podcast of 2018—tracks the development of ISIS from a set
the incoming French troops. of encrypted, online chatrooms to a many-sided network across four continents.

John Jenks (left) welcomes the audience. Students Callimachi started her career in foreign journalism in India, covering the catastrophic 2001
(upper right) engage at the Q&A session. Georgie Anne earthquake in Gujarat for Time. While serving as a foreign correspondent for the West Africa bu-
Geyer (lower right) attended the event. reau of the Associated Press, she traveled to Timbuktu just after its liberation from al-Qaeda.
Searching the group’s headquarters, she discovered thousands of pages of documents left
behind as the terrorists fled the incoming French troops. The documents provided a window into
the organization’s operations and inaugurated the investigative technique that she later used so
effectively in “The ISIS Files,” a groundbreaking New York Times report that described the brutality
and many-layered bureaucracy that has kept ISIS a powerful threat for so long.

Callimachi’s visit to campus was part of the Georgie Anne Geyer Initiative, a program launched
by Gera-Lind Kolarik ’74 to honor the trailblazing columnist and foreign correspondent who began
her long and legendary career at the Chicago Daily News. The initiative includes lectures by well-
known foreign correspondents and scholarships for Dominican students interested in pursuing the
field.

Geyer, who covered some of the most momentous international events of the past 60 years,
was on campus for the event. She is renowned for her in-depth interviews with generations of
world leaders, including Juan Perón, Anwar Sadat, Yasser Arafat, Saddam Hussein and Mua-
mmar Gaddafi. Like Callimachi, Geyer was tenacious in her efforts to talk with world leaders,
including many who were in conflict with the United States.

Callimachi’s appearance drew students from a wide variety of majors, including digital journal-
ism, communication studies, political science and many others. Annelise Metcall, a junior majoring
in international relations and diplomacy, was impressed by Callimachi’s Caliphate podcast. “The
podcast made me realize that not all terrorists are monsters,” she said. “Many are humans who
make mistakes. But the podcast also made it clear that some of the terrorists will never change.”

Erick Mendoza, a junior majoring in political science and psychology, appreciated Callimachi’s
discussion of how ISIS uses the Internet to recruit fighters. “The Internet plays a huge role in the
terrorist organization’s ability to grow,” he said. “They use encrypted websites, Twitter, Instagram
and Tumblr—they’re everywhere. They use a twisted concept of religion to recruit people and
convince them to kill. It was an eye-opening experience to have Rukmini on campus.”

Dominican Magazine FALL 2018 7

“When you sell on price

Welcome, rather than quality everybody
will leave you for a nickel,” ex-

MBA Students. plained José Jr., the compa-
ny’s chief financial officer.
Meet the Board. The students—a diverse
group that included a con-
struction project manager

from Poland, a theology

graduate from Iowa and a

human resources specialist

from Saudi Arabia—peppered

them with questions about

their “ideal customer,” the

dynamics of a family opera-

tion, and how much they were

willing to invest.

The next morning, the

New MBA students at It’s your first assignment as a new MBA student: students fanned out for some field research. They
Dominican are challenged to appear before a panel of executives in a boardroom interrogated customers and owners at mom-and-
solve business problems for
local companies—then sell and present compelling solutions to their most pop grocers specializing in traditional Mexican
their ideas in a reality
TV-style competition where vexing business problems. Oh, and you have three products and large chains alike. Back on campus,
the judges are actual
corporate executives. hours to prepare. Better get cracking. the teams hunkered down around tables littered

This is the Gateway Practicum, a highlight of the with coffee cups and takeout boxes to brainstorm,

redesigned MBA curriculum at the Brennan School rehearse their pitches and build PowerPoints.

of Business. What might seem like a nightmarish Barely three hours later the students were

cross between boot camp and Shark Tank is meant presenting in the boardroom. The González family

to introduce students to Brennan’s radical emphasis scribbled notes. Proposals ranged from the super

on wrestling with real-world business issues and ambitious (build new distribution centers) to

putting theory into practice—right from the start. “It low-hanging fruit (make the website more customer

is baptism by fire,” admits marketing professor Dave friendly; consider organics; invest in software to

Aron, a faculty facilitator for the Gateway experience. better manage and cultivate customers).

“But sometimes in the real world you only have The winning team’s suggestion: examine public

hours. You don’t have a whole semester to solve a databases of new restaurant licenses to target

problem. Sometimes, you only have minutes.” establishments still looking for produce suppliers.

One afternoon this spring, four teams of new “I’m actually going to do that,” José Jr. responded

MBA students filed into the Cusack Board Room in excitedly. “Those are the kinds of solutions we can

Power Hall. They had 10 minutes each to present actually do right away.”

proposals that would impress the leadership of J. His feedback gave a boost to the entire group.

L. González Produce, Inc., a family-run wholesale “I’m so impressed,” he said. “If we had hired a con-

distributor of fresh Mexican produce in the Chi- sultant for hundreds of dollars, I don’t think they’d

cago area that’s been in the intensely competitive have come up with something better.”

business for more than 20 years. The challenge: Celebrating over drinks, members of the winning

how to increase sales across all retailers, particularly team were astonished their ideas might actually

grocery stores outside Latino neighborhoods. be put into practice. “I never imagined that,” said

Before they dove in, they needed to know a little accountant Lauren Adduci.

bit about the grocery business. So the afternoon Fellow team member Abadi Bakraa, who wants

before the presentations, company founder José Luis to open an HR consultancy in his native Saudi

González and his sons, José Luis Jr. and Ulises, Arabia, said one takeaway was recognizing a family

gave the group of 15 students a master class in business was going to want practical solutions.

everything from how to grow an avocado that won’t “Solving a business problem is a little like solving an

turn into guacamole overnight to why competing equation,” he said. “You put all the pieces together

only on price is a race to the bottom. and arrive at a realistic outcome.”

8  Dominican Magazine FALL 2018

“We believe that our
grant was approved by
the NSF because we
proposed an innova-
tive, holistic set of best
practice interventions
that will work in con-
cert with each other to
help all STEM students,
not just those who are
struggling.”

Dr. Tina Taylor-Ritzler,
associate professor of psychology

Dominican University Receives $527,000
National Science Foundation Grant to
Enhance Undergraduate STEM Education

Dominican University has received a $526,892 STEM courses. We plan to create a robust in- The grant will fund the appointment of a
grant from the National Science Foundation tervention program to help our students persist STEM learning specialist who will work with
(NSF) to build capacity and enhance peda- in their pursuit of careers in the sciences.” Dominican’s newly created Division of Student
gogy and holistic supports in undergraduate Success and Engagement to implement the
STEM (science, technology, engineering and Using NSF funding, Dominican plans to grant activities and connect students with
mathematics) courses. The grant, which is launch in fall 2019 a STEM Gateway program university and community resources designed
part of more than $45 million in NSF funding to designed to enhance student engagement in to facilitate their academic, social and emotional
31 Hispanic Serving-Institutions (HSIs) across introductory biology, chemistry and mathemat- success. The grant provides robust funding for
the country, will bolster Dominican’s efforts to ics classes. The grant will also fund two-week undergraduate student employees to work as
increase retention and graduation rates of un- residential STEM Summer Bridge experiences embedded tutors in introductory STEM classes.
dergraduate students pursuing STEM degrees. beginning in 2020. This orientation program
Through this grant, Dominican is expected to will help prepare entering freshmen who have Throughout the grant period, this project
receive additional NSF funding totaling nearly expressed an interest in science for success in will investigate the extent to which the summer
$1.5 million over the next five years. college-level STEM courses. bridge program, embedded tutoring, inclusive
pedagogy and case management improve aca-
“Research has shown that early success “Most attrition in STEM fields occurs at the demic performance and persistence of STEM
can be crucial to student retention and long-term transition between introductory-level and ad- students.
success in STEM fields,” said Dr. Christopher vanced coursework,” said Dr. Tina Taylor-Ritzler,
Anderson, associate professor of biology and associate professor of psychology and a Other co-principal investigators for the
principal investigator for the grant. “This grant co-principal investigator for the grant. “We be- project include Paul Simpson, director for civic
will help Dominican implement teaching and lieve that our grant was approved by the NSF learning, and Chad Rohman, interim dean of
student support practices designed to in- because we proposed an innovative, holistic the Rosary College of Arts and Sciences.
crease the success of undergraduates in early set of best practice interventions that will work
in concert with each other to help all STEM
students, not just those who are struggling.”

Dominican Magazine FALL 2018 9

Josseline Shares the Joy

Soccer’s Josseline Williams tied for the most game-winning
goals across NCAA Division III last year. But she prefers to talk
about the team. By Emily Lapinski

Women’s soccer has found a true Star in Josseline man and 31 goals as a sophomore. That does not
Williams. happen without a lot of focus and hard work.”

“Soccer teams need goal scorers,” says head Williams likes to focus on the team’s achieve-
coach Carlos Carrillo. “A goal elevates the entire ments. “We went undefeated and made history win-
team. The excitement generated has a huge impact ning the conference tournament and going on to the
on the energy level. Josseline provides that impact national tournament,” she says. “We as a team are
regularly.” building the program and increasing the standard
of play, and being a part of it is very special. I would
Last year, the junior forward from Kaysville, Utah, like to get further in the national tournament, make it
netted a league-best 31 goals as far as we can go.”
on the season, including
nine game-winning goals. A nutrition and dietetics major, Williams
She was voted Offensive maintains a 3.68 grade-point average and
Player of the Year for the participates in the Honors Program. “She is
Northern Athletics Colle- an extremely hard worker on the field and
giate Conference (NACC). in the classroom,” says Carillo.
On the national level, she tied “I’ve been playing soccer since I
for the most game-winning goals was a little kid,” Williams recalls.
across NCAA Division III and was second “My parents say that I had a ball
for most goals and points overall. at my feet since I was learning to
walk.” She started playing with
Williams has picked right up in her junior season, friends, then shifted to playing
leading the Stars to their first regular season confer- competitively at age eight.
ence championship with a perfect 11-0-0 mark in “One of my first memories is
NACC play. The Stars’ forward leads the confer- deciding the team name based
ence in both goals (23) and points (50), through the on jersey colors like ‘purple tigers.’”
team’s first 18 matches and her nine game-winning Soccer is still fun for her. “When
goals is tied for the lead in all of NCAA Division III she scores a goal, the first thing she does
women’s soccer. is find the teammate who gave her the assist,”

“Her biggest asset is her drive to be better,” says Carillo. “Josseline shares the joy with her and
Coach Carillo says. “She scored 13 goals as a fresh- her teammates.”

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Men’s Soccer: 30 Years of Success MEN’S SOCCER FIRSTS
1990
At Homecoming 2018, Dominican celebrated in 1995, and has posted a 375-91-34 record
the 30th anniversary of the men’s soccer in 23 seasons. In his entire Dominican career, FIRST CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIP
team. The Stars (originally the Rosary College including four seasons as a player, Baumann
Rebels) have posted an all-time record of has contributed to 428 wins in 27 seasons—an 1997
453-145-42 while winning 19 conference average of more than 15 wins per season.
championships and 17 conference tourna- FIRST CONFERENCE TOURNAMENT CHAMPIONSHIP
ment championships. It is the most success-
ful program in the university’s athletic history. 1999

In their first season, back in 1988, the FIRST NAIA NATIONAL TOURNAMENT APPEARANCE
Rosary Rebels went 8-8-2 under head coach
Phil Birch. In its third season (1990), the Reb- 2002
els captured their first Chicagoland Collegiate
Athletic Conference (CCAC) championship, FIRST NCAA DIVISION III NATIONAL TOURNAMENT
going 16-6-0 on the season under head APPEARANCE
coach Jorge Espinoza.
2003
Seven years would pass before the next
conference championship, in 1997, under FIRST NCAA DIVISION III NATIONAL TOURNAMENT
the current head coach, Erick Baumann QUARTERFINAL APPEARANCE
’93. A four-year alumnus of the men’s soccer
program, Baumann returned as head coach 2009

FIRST NCAA DIVISION III NATIONAL TOURNAMENT
SEMIFINAL APPEARANCE

Three-time regional Coach
of the Year, Erick Baumann.

A Final Four First

The Dominican men’s volleyball team fought graduating seniors who helped year, new head coach Dan
their way to the NCAA Division III champion- launch the team. “It’s been Pawlikowski said he was
ship semifinals for the first time last spring, a hell of a ride,” said middle especially proud of how the
continuing a rapid rise for a program only hitter Nick Timreck. “It’s been a team stuck together over
in its fifth year. In the end, the Stars lost to fun five years.” The team’s win over Carthage the entire challenging season. “They had each
the Stevens Institute of Technology. But College in the quarterfinals earned them the other’s backs the whole time,” Pawlikowski
advancing to the tournament for a second Team Performance of the Year award from said. “We talk about being a family. You could
straight year capped a remarkable run for the the athletics department. Reflecting on the really see that.”

The Stars went 26-8
on the season and
advanced to the NCAA
Division III championship
tournament for a second
straight year. It was their
rst appearance in the
Final Four. Among other
milestones for the young
program: two players,
Luke Spicer and Alex
Coyne, were named
All-Americans twice.

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Juliet

LOVE AND TRUTH CONVERGE

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“The word theatre comes HEATRE HAS BEEN PART OF THE DOMINICAN scene since
from the Greeks. It means the start. In 1923, after the Sinsinawa Dominican Sisters moved their
school from southwestern Wisconsin to the Chicago suburbs, Rosary
‘the seeing place.’ College students started staging plays in the gymnasium, under the
It is the place people come cloister walk and even in the woods on the west side of campus. Sister
to see the truth about life and Mary Peter Doyle, OP, a future president of the college, directed stu-
dent productions of Shakespeare and contemporary plays. In 1942,
the social situation.” Sister Gregory Duffy, OP, joined the faculty and started the Grex Guild,
STELLA ADLER which became the legendary Rosary College Players. A force of nature,
Sister Greg got involved in Broadway productions, came to know Mary
Three of the fiercely talented women of Martin and Rodgers and Hammerstein, and served as an advisor on
DU’s 2017 production of Romeo & Juliet. The Sound of Music. She also assisted the architects who designed the
Ashley Montero as Paris, Yizleibis Barreto campus’ Fine Arts Building. It opened on November 7, 1952, with an
as Tybalt and Annika Strolle as Mercutio. acoustically ideal auditorium that seats 1,100.

The first performance in what is now the a Hansen-directed student production of
Lund Auditorium was Victor Herbert’s oper- Romeo and Juliet. “Great drama can tolerate
etta, Sweethearts, directed by Sister Greg and innovation, even benefit from it,” he noted,
Robert E. Thompson, an actor and professor and this Dominican production did both.
at the college. Today, the Lund is the home Here is Black’s report:
of a vibrant Performing Arts Center as well
as annual productions of the university’s In Elizabethan England, women were
thriving Department of Theatre Arts and barred from performing on stage, so all the
Music, established in 1999. The green room female roles in Shakespeare were played by
is named for Sister Greg. men. A nice turn, then, that director Krista
Hansen decided to cast Romeo and Juliet
Associate Professor Krista Hansen chairs entirely with women.
the department, teaches theatre arts and
regularly directs student productions at the Professor Hansen had not plotted this
Lund. “All kinds of people end up in theatre, Romeo to comment on historic inequities.
from true extroverts to the very soft spoken,” She was not trying to make a feminist
she said. “What they all have in common is a statement. She was not even trying to do
strong sense of social interaction and a desire something different. Early in the planning,
to creatively impact the world around them.” she had toyed with the idea of a “gender-flu-
id” staging, and had kept the costumes
Lund productions often inspire wider equally suited to male and female actors. But
campus engagements. The 2012 run of the moment of truth came during auditions
RENT, for example, was accompanied by an for the play.
effort to educate students about HIV infec-
tion and AIDS. The 2014 production of Ex- “That’s when it happened,” she recalled.
tremities, a searing play about rape, formed “As I went through the casting process, the
the basis for campus-wide discussions about women’s voices were really strong. So instead
domestic violence and sexual assault. of casting a few women in male roles, I de-
cided to go with all women in all the roles.”
Last fall, Chicago writer Jonathan Black,
who frequently covers the arts, went behind Exit rules and preconceptions, stage left.
the scenes for rehearsals and the opening of The all-women cast meant Hansen had
to consider possible moping among male

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actors denied the limelight. She needn’t have “...appreciating the truth phenomenal scene partner. She gives me a
worried—her decision drew widespread lot to play with. Historically, of course, the
support from across gender lines. “All my of others puts us on the path love story is hetero, but it doesn’t change no
students are open to learning and excited for matter who’s playing the characters.”
their colleagues,” she said as rehearsals got to creating a more just
underway. She also was quick to remind the To deepen their connection, the two
male students that acting isn’t the only way and humane world.” friends did an exercise together early in
to participate in a play. “ ere are plenty of rehearsal. ey matched each other’s breath-
production positions where you can learn PROFESSOR KR ISTA HANSEN ing: one breathed in, the other out; then
and build skills.” they alternated. “She breathes faster than I
bene ts that come from work on the stage, do,” said Powell. “We discussed it, and she
For the women, switching to male as well as a “mastery of verbal and written slowed down. It was nice to know we were
identities presented more challenges than communication.” meeting each other halfway.”
dropping their voice an octave or two. e
six-week rehearsal process had its share of at last skill was on particular display Romeo and Juliet, even streamlined, is a
interesting revelations. In one scene, Mel- as Hansen worked to bring the best possible complicated production. Left intact were
anie ompson, the actor playing Romeo, script to the production. e full text of a half dozen ght scenes between various
jumped up and pointed her foot in a way that Romeo and Juliet would have required a show Montagues and Capulets, requiring lots of
was, well, not manly. She quickly admonished in excess of three hours, testing the limits swordplay and mortal wounds. Claire Year-
herself: “Oh, that was so girly.” of both actors and audiences. Hansen is man, a guest artist who has choreographed
practiced at paring Shakespeare plays; she’s several productions with Hansen, had a
For ompson, transforming herself trimmed Othello, Macbeth and As You Like number of issues to address besides the cast’s
into Romeo was a breeze in some ways and It for Lund productions. She picked up her inexperience with ght training.
tricky in others. “I have a feminine gait and editor’s pencil and snipped Romeo to a single,
my weight distribution is di erent from a brisk, 85-minute act. “It’s fast-paced to suit “ e theater is so large,” she said. “I took
man’s,” she said. “So it’s a game of guring a contemporary audience. We already know liberties with the small sword so it looked
out how to make myself more masculine, the story, so we don’t need to set it up so
quote-unquote.” On a more profound level methodically,” she noted. “We can bring the ashier to the audience.”
meaningful stu to the forefront. But none e small sword, unlike the more tradi-
ompson came to realize how di erently of the familiar scenes were cut,” she added.
men and women convey feelings, how men “It still ends badly.” tional rapier, required extra precision when
tend to struggle to pull themselves together. “targeting”—the technical term for a realistic
“Men play trauma and emotion very di er- Mia Powell, who played Juliet, was one of thrust, aimed just o the bicep and never
ently in their bodies than women do. Men the production’s few actors who was not for- near the face. Late in rehearsals, Yearman
hold it in. I see a lot of female characters mally enrolled in the theatre arts program. seemed satis ed with the actors’ work. “We
kind of drop down and use their bodies to She’s an English major with a theology mi- got them where we wanted,” she said. “We
stop themselves from falling apart. e di- nor. She took a few early courses in theatre, made adjustments.” One adjustment was
rection I’m heading is a crumbling, holding and when she chose another major, “Krista for Tybalt, played by Yizleibis Barreto, who
myself together because I’m falling apart. kind of kept me in the department,” she said tripped during a rehearsal and fractured her
Not trying to hide that I’m falling apart.” gratefully. Romeo was her fth Dominican wrist. She returned with a cast. Yearman
production. She is considering keeping a modi ed her moves so she could stay in the
Bringing a new awareness to male and hand in acting after graduation. production. “She ended up really excelling.”
female roles was just one of the bene ts
Hansen saw in her gender- uid Shakespeare. Powell had no problem playing opposite a “Most people are unaware of how much
female actor as Romeo. She and ompson are work goes into a theatre production,” said
e professor believes that the study of “both actors,” she said. “We would have had to Hansen. It’s an issue with the arts in general.
theatre teaches students an “abundance of “As an industry, the arts are often underval-
life skills.” She counts “problem solving and nd trust in each other no matter what.” ued, though people cannot go a day without
staying calm under pressure” among the “I’m fortunate to be friends with my being impacted by the arts,” she said. “We
listen to music, play video games, watch
counterpart,” ompson said. “She’s a

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TV, go to movies and see countless ads and “You have all this hate, e assistant ght director followed, run-
graphics every day. e arts are everywhere. ning the cast through the weapons scenes,
What we neglect to see is that people spend and you have this complete with writhing and death gasps.
years honing their skills to create these Hansen, watching from halfway back in the
things we take for granted.” love that tries still-empty auditorium, seemed to relax. “It’s
a well-oiled machine,” she said quietly.
Watching the rehearsal process, it was im- to overcome it.”
possible not to be impressed by the give and e curtain rose promptly at 10:00 a.m.
take of criticism—a life skill on abundant CHRISTINE HECKMAN to an audience of 400 teen-aged students,
display. After almost every rehearsal the cast and the show went o without a hitch. No
gathered in the front rows while Hansen tor, it was impossible not to be struck by the one dropped a line; no one missed an en-
read notes from the stage. “We should be behavior and motivations of the characters trance; light appeared where it was supposed
o book by now. We’re a little behind where in the city of Verona. “You have all this hate, to appear; the sword ghts looked real and
we should be. We open in four weeks. Don’t and you have this love that tries to overcome scary. e audience was engaged, emitting
think you have oodles of time. You don’t!” it,” said Christine Heckman, who played the a swell of high-school “Ooohs!” when the
Not everyone, she complained, was articu- Nurse. “It’s so important, especially in this two lovers, entranced with each other at the
lating clearly or loudly enough. “ ere’s an political climate.” Capulet ball, joined in two long kisses. ey
enormous amount of trailing o ,” she said. were rapt again when Juliet stabbed herself
“ e most important words are often at the Hansen, for her part, thought the play alongside her dead Romeo.
end. We are in the Lund. I need your full ac- would have particular resonance at Do-
tual voices. Rehearse where you breathe. You minican. “Romeo and Juliet teaches us to Predictably, the talk-back session after
must earn your pauses. is is not Mamet.” accept others and live our own truth. e the nal curtain had one male high school
parents’ domineering actions and callous student asking the two women, “How do
Often her comments were targeted to attitudes forced the couple to hide who you feel about that kissing?”
speci c characters: they were, which lead the pair to a tragic
end and left the families with interminable “We all respect each other as actors,”
“Romeo: ink of it as being so di cult grief and regret. is play—and theatre as ompson answered, then added, “We use a
to say that bile comes up in your mouth an art form—can remind us that knowing lot of toothpaste!”
every time you say it. How’s that?” ourselves, living our truth, and appreciating Another student asked Juliet how she
the truth of others puts us on the path to managed to remain still so long, playing dead,
“Mercutio: Your whole speech is rhymed. creating a more just and humane world.” as she was carried on a litter before being laid
When we rhyme we sort of show o . You’re in the tomb. “I focus on other things,” Powell
going to be witty! So maybe enjoy the banter Rehearsals, from casting to opening, lasted answered, “like my next lines.”
a little more.” seven weeks. In the nal week everything Others in the audience wanted to know
ramped up, with the appearance of costumes how di cult it was to learn to speak Shake-
e giving and acceptance of praise and scenery and the need for sound checks speare (it took work) and the composition of
presented another opportunity. and tech rehearsals. the balcony (wood). Finally a student asked
why all the actors were women.
“Nurse: You are o the stage and ying! e rst public performance was on Fri- Hansen answered this one. She o ered
Awesome! Let’s keep that.” day, November 3, at 10:00 in the morning. three reasons. In Elizabethan times it was
It was preceded by an onstage warm-up led men who performed all the parts, so she
Occasionally even Hansen strayed o by ompson, still in street clothes. Facing decided to ip it. She also wanted to “take
script. Speaking of the nurse, she said to the entire cast, she did a fteen-minute gender out of the equation” to help the
high-energy session of body and voice exer- audience to focus on the relationships. en
ompson, “She’s not the parent of Juliet, cises which featured everything from pin- she paused and smiled. “And three, the ladies
but she’s the person you have to convince. wheels to spinning to grunting to reciting, were good—really good!”
Whenever you’re in a relationship there “She sells seashells by the seashore.” It was a tting coda to a hugely popular
always seems to be that person in the other and dynamic production.
person’s life you want to impress. at’s the “Alright,” she concluded. “You owe it to
best way I can put it.” yourself to give it everything you’ve got.”

Life lessons intrude on any good drama,
but they seem especially pertinent in Romeo
and Juliet. For any responsible, e ective ac-

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My Life Victoria Whooper Dominican University “I like being the one who pulls
Tinhtheeatre Yale School of Drama it all together.”
Stage Manager University of Miami

Victoria Whooper found her calling at Dominican, when she I wanted to be a sound engineer. Fortunately,
began working as a stage manager for theatre arts department Krista Hansen, the current theatre arts chair,
shows. Now, having earned a master’s degree at Yale School of saw something in me and told me I would
Drama, Whooper is living her dream, working at the University of make a great stage manager. I had no idea
Miami as Lecturer in Stage Management, and as a freelance AEA what she was talking about, but I listened to
Stage Manager for shows like Acorn Theatre’s O -Broadway her and learned from watching a senior work
production of Shadowlands. as stage manager. As a sophomore, I worked
as assistant stage manager on Into the Woods,
Stage managers don’t get a lot of accolades, You spend so much time with the cast and I found that the role fit me. It was like, “Yes,
this makes sense! This is what I want to do!” I’m
and I’m okay with that. The people I work with and crew. For Shadowlands, we rehearsed very organized, but I also like to be involved in
the creative process. I like being the one who
know how much pride I take in my work, and for five weeks before previews, and we did pulls it all together. I’m so grateful to Krista for
seeing that in me.
they are the ones who matter. My role is to 72 performances. A stage manager has to be
I was fortunate to learn and grow at Domin-
serve the director’s vision. The stage manag- able to communicate e ectively with everyone ican. I was involved in all facets of theatre from
the box o ce to assistant lighting design to
er coordinates all of a production’s technical from the actors and designers, to producers acting, which gave me a fuller appreciation of
theatre. It’s such a thrill now to see my name
elements, like light and sound, with the actors’ and artistic directors to ensure the successful attached to an O -Broadway production like
Shadowlands. I was made for this job, and I plan
creativity. We create a schedule and make sure running of a show. to keep on making great theatre and educating
the next generations of stage managers for as
everyone stays on it. We have to understand all One of the unique things about Shadow- long as I can until someone tells me to stop.

the personalities involved in the production and lands is the range of ages of the actors. The

keep the creativity and productivity flowing. youngest is ten years old; the oldest is in his

From the first day of rehearsals, I’m at the direc- late 70s. Obviously, their needs are quite di er-

tor’s side, recording all the staging notes, creating ent. I try to be flexible enough to anticipate and

a record of the director’s artistic vision. After understand everybody’s needs. Lucky for me,

the show opens, when the director goes away, it they’re all lovely people. About the only thing

becomes my responsibility to see that the show is they ever ask of me is an occasional cup of tea.

performed the way the director intended. When I came to Dominican, I was already

interested in theatre production, but I thought

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My Life Margaret More Hunt ’67 Rosary College “Playwriting belongs to you in
Tinhtheeatre Goodman Theatre a way that acting doesn’t.”
Playwright New Harmony Festival

For her latest work, the play- This was 1966. We were seniors and the more time writing, I stopped acting. I could
wright Margaret More Hunt first students from Rosary to live on our own only a ord to lose money on one career at a
’67 drew on her experiences o campus. We actually had to ask permission time. I found that playwriting belongs to you in
as a student at Rosary College. from the school. There is so much you don’t a way that acting doesn’t.
A Kids’ House is based on the know when you are young and on your own for
year she and three classmates the first time. We were all scholarship students I like to return to Dominican to do play
shared an o -campus apart- with very little spending money. We learned readings. During the planning for our 50th re-
ment in Oak Park. Her plays how to budget, how to divide the chores, how union in 2017, we planned a reading of scenes
have been produced in New to stand up to an awful landlord. We thought it from A Kids’ House, a work in progress. The
York, Chicago and Rome and would be fun, and it was, but it turned out to be Alumnae/i O ce gathered some recent gradu-
have had workshops at such so much more. It was a bridge to adulthood. ates—all theatre majors—and a current student
highly regarded venues as the That’s why I thought it would make a good play. to play the parts, and we read the play for about
Goodman Theatre and the New 100 people in the Martin Recital Hall.
Harmony Project in Indiana. In college, I was as interested in performing
She told us about her life as a as I was in writing. With my classmate Jean Playwrights always learn from readings. A
playwright and how the lessons Seitter and other students, I co-wrote our playwright is like a composer in that you can’t
she learned at Rosary continue freshman show—a musical comedy version of tell what you really have till you hear all the
to resonate. the Odyssey. I also directed and played Odys- instruments playing together. You hear what
seus to Jean’s Penelope. needs to be changed. Sometimes if there is
one syllable too many in a line, it falls flat. If it’s
It was only after I’d moved to New York that a punchline, it won’t get a laugh. But you can’t
I started writing plays. It was 1976. I was going know that until you hear it. In fact, I learned
to auditions as a character actress and needed from Sister Jeremy—a published poet with
fresh material to perform; so I decided to write a great sense of humor—that most English
monologues for myself. Some of those mono- punchlines are written in iambic pentameter.
logues eventually turned into plays. As I spent

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My Life McKinley Johnson Open Door Repertory “Musicals have a way of
Tinhtheeatre Goodman Theatre touching people”
Playwright and Composer Je erson Award nominee

McKinley Johnson’s path to the theater started in his childhood home, which his mother filled
with gospel tunes. A Je erson Award nominee, Johnson has written nine musicals and done
work at Chicago’s Goodman Theatre, the Open Door Repertory in Oak Park and elsewhere.
He also is a professional costume designer, tailor and patternmaker, and has taught in Dominican’s
fashion program since 1999.

I grew up in Smithfield, Virginia, in a house full that harmony. It’s wonderful. Gospel music bor- musical helped people to embrace the story of
of music. My mother taught classical piano. rows from classical music and from spirituals, Bayard Rustin and not overlook his contribu-
She worked with gospel music, classical music, and the music that I write for my shows also tions, which really built the foundation of the
spirituals. There were five of us, and thankfully, borrows from those two genres. way we’re able to live now.
we had parents who encouraged us to follow
our interests. I came to Chicago to study the- As a writer, I’m drawn to the faith that my I also have sewn since I was about nine
ater in graduate school. characters need to overcome obstacles. Thom- years old. Theater and fashion, sewing and
as Dorsey had to overcome prejudice within the costuming—they all come together for me. I
My church pastor asked me to write a black church against gospel music. A musical enjoy putting the puzzle pieces together, kind
sketch about the beginnings of gospel music I finished recently, Eye of the Storm, also is of creating something out of nothing.
and Thomas Andrew Dorsey, who is regarded about overcoming prejudice. It’s about Bayard
as the father of black gospel. As I was research- Rustin, who organized the Southern Christian Working on these musicals has taught me
ing Dorsey’s life, I said, “Gosh, I could write Leadership Conference and the 1963 March on so much. I’ve learned that you have to stay
a musical about this.” That became my first Washington. Bayard Rustin did all that, but he engaged, even when things go poorly, as they
musical, Georgia Tom, in 1994—and I’ve been is not well known as a civil rights organizer be- do sometimes. Whatever mission you’ve been
writing musicals ever since. Musicals have a cause he was gay. He was marginalized in the given, you have to stick to it, even when it looks
way of touching people and getting them to movement. He had to hide himself in order to as though you might not succeed. The world
listen to a story or point of view. help his fellow man. This musical was produced may take you down, but you should never take
earlier this year by a black theater company yourself down. You have to have that inner
Gospel has inspired me greatly. With gospel on the South Side of Chicago. I’m hoping the strength to keep going.
music, you have all of the choral parts, all of

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My Life Deb Acker ’75 Apollo Theater “The biggest challenge—and the
Tinhtheeatre Steppenwolf Theatre biggest joy—is keeping the actors
Stage Manager Chicago Shakespeare Theater safe and happy”

Watching her older brother and sister on their high school stage beautiful and not to be feared at all. My favorite
in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, Deb Acker ’75 got hooked on the magic parts of rehearsals are what we call “table work,”
of theater. So much so, that after realizing a year into college that where you work on the language and the story.
acting wasn’t for her, she went into lighting design and other
technical work instead. Today, Acker is production stage man- The scope of his work is challenging. You
ager and associate producer at Tony Award-winning Chicago can have an actor coming on as a soldier, then
Shakespeare Theater on Navy Pier, one of Chicago’s premier running o , changing clothes and coming back
cultural attractions and her artistic home for more than 25 years. a minute later as a servant. It has to run like
a clock. A lot of people think of stage man-
I started out at the Apollo Theater on Lincoln Sinise, Laurie Metcalf, Glenne Headly. They agement as being about calling the cues for
Avenue when it opened in 1978. They hired had to do every aspect of the show themselves a show. In smaller theaters, however, it’s very
me full time as an electrician. I became their and were grateful for any help you could give hands on and technical—you set the props and
technical director and blu ed my way through them. John Malkovich always wanted to help the costumes, run the lights, watch the actors.
everything. I knew what I was doing to an ex- with technical tasks, and he’s completely tech-
tent; but it’s amazing what you can learn when nically inept. But I was so happy to get to know Today it’s also much more of a people man-
you shut up and listen. those actors before they became stars. They agement job, which makes it more interesting
are the nicest, hardest-working people. and challenging. The biggest challenge—and
Coming from Rosary College, one thing the biggest joy—is keeping the actors safe and
I wasn’t used to was the sexism. I realized Before I started at Chicago Shakespeare happy. That’s the hard part, I think, dealing
that I was going to have to prove myself, and Theater in the early ’90s, I enjoyed Shake- with the actors’ psyches, temperaments and
I didn’t take any crap. The great thing about speare but there was nothing really special emotions. That’s our job: to provide them with a
Rosary College was that you came out of there to me about it. I learned to appreciate it here. safe place to do their best work.
knowing you could do anything. It gave me a Barbara Gaines, who founded the theater, is
backbone and integrity. famous for making the language accessible I’ve been lucky, but I don’t think I would
to everyone. The language in Shakespeare is have survived in this business had Rosary not
In those days, Steppenwolf did some shows turned me into a person who could survive. We
at the Apollo. All the stars were just kids—Gary were trusted and expected to do well.

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A Home for the Creative Spirit

THEATRE ARTS AT DOMINICAN EST. 1923

Theatre Arts Lab Series 2008–2018

2017/2018 2012/2013
Romeo and Juliet RENT

Erasing the Distance: Dominican Chap. 2 Rabbit Hole

Songs for a New World Six Characters in Search of an Author

2016/2017 2011/2012
The Addams Family Gypsy

Beautiful Bodies The Gift of the Magi
Waiting for Godot The Art of Dining

2015/2016 The Night of the Iguana
Legally Blonde
2010/2011
The Seagull The Wiz
The Miss Firecracker Contest
The Women of Lockerbie
2014/2015 She Stoops to Conquer
Our Town
2009/2010
Almost, Maine Macbeth
The 25th Annual Putnam County
Free to Be You and Me
Spelling Bee Lend Me a Tenor

2013/2014 The Musical of Musicals (the Musical!)
The Drowsy Chaperone
2008/2009
Extremities Into the Woods
As You Like It The Laramie Project

Lysistrata

The Black Box Experiment An experimental showcase presented

by students in the department’s Directing Workshop class

2016/2017 ’Tis the Season 2010/2011 Wendy Wasserstein
2014/2015 Family 2009/2010 Sam Shepard
2012/2013 Truth 2008/2009 Women and the Body



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Alumnae/i Relations at [email protected] or (708) Kay Pielsticker Coleman, mas Eve. It helped that the family
524-6286. Class News items are submitted by was all there for Christmas. I am
alumnae/i and do not represent positions, policies Elizabeth Freidheim, Corrine happy to report that he is doing
or opinions of the O ce of Alumnae/i Relations or much better, is almost completely
Dominican University. Some items have been edited for Carnivele Hanley, Carolyn out of pain, and has gained some
length and content. Class News published in this issue weight, which is good for him but
was collected before July 13, 2018; news submitted after Sweeney Judd, Gloria Adams not so good for me! We always
that date will appear in the spring 2019 issue. To access attended daily Mass together and
Class News and selected news media items about Mills and Mary Beth Vander while I am back to doing that,
Dominican Alumnae/i, go to dom.edu/alumni. it won’t be too long before he
Vennet Tallon joins me again. We continue to
Thank you for sharing your news! Class Agents be on the Gallery Board and the
Community Concert Board, which
Undergraduate Alumnae/i be learning in her 70s and 80s at Karen Arntson McDonnell writes keeps us busy. Please know that I
Class News college, as well as learning a new that “some of you knew my dear keep my Rosary, oops, Dominican
skill like playing an organ with mother, Margaret “Marge” Arnt- University, sisters in my prayers.”
1957 electronic capabilities that mimic son, who passed away on February
orchestral instruments. Currently, 15, at the age of 100. The day she Sue Meyer Hubbard says “those
Ellen Bendry she serves as a part-time music died would have been my Dad’s of us still here at 78, even if we
Class Agent minister, playing organ/piano birthday. Quite a birthday present! have to deal with a few ‘issues’, are
and accompanying cantors and Last September, my brother and I grateful. Alan drove me to Nash-
Hi classmates, congregations for weddings and hosted a grand celebration for her ville to St. Thomas Hospital but
funerals. Her home parish for 100th. She never wanted anyone thankfully, all is fine. As all seven
I visited Sarasota, IL where Jean the past 10 years is St. Katharine to know her age before! She loved of the Meyer family are living, our
Horrigan-Delhey, Sue Rutherford Drexel Catholic Church, Sugar it that day!” children decided to have a reunion
Wilson and I spent time with Joan Grove, IL. The parish’s new church this summer in Breckenridge, CO.
Keegan’s sister and visited Joan’s was completed in 2010 and Corrine Carnivele Hanley writes, It was a fun weekend. I sew with
grave site (July 2, 2017). We cel- continues to grow. Sister Gene- “My husband, Robert, has narrated a wonderful group and I play Ca-
ebrated her life and shared many vieve Pinion, OP has become her his book Do You See What I See? nasta with another group. I joined
college memories. lifelong friend. Audre visited her Discovering the Obvious. The a book club, and while I like the
many times and she still has the audiobook has been submitted for group, I haven’t cared for the first
Dave Smith wrote that Rita Cleary bookmark that Sister Genevieve a Grammy Award, and is available three books. Maybe I will come up
Smith continues to remain stable gave her at graduation that says, on Amazon, Audible and iTunes with a suggestion. You all are way
and is able to go out for dinner “Trust the past to the mercy of along with the paperback and ahead of me with grandchildren. I
and attend family celebrations. God, the present to His love and Kindle versions. only have three and the oldest two
the future to His providence.”—St. are 6 and 6 1/2. My ‘shot in the
Our summer Dominican gathering Augustine. Audre’s two daughters Robert and I enjoyed a private arm’ every week is talking with my
occurred on September 10 with an planned a treat for her birthday; tour of the American Film Institute granddaughter on FaceTime. It is
open invitation to all classmates. they took a sailboat cruise on (AFI), which recently awarded hard to put into words the love you
Please keep this in mind for next Lake Michigan, followed by dinner George Clooney its Lifetime have for your grandchildren.”
year and call me for more details. at her choice of venue. Happy Achievement Award. Five nieces
Birthday Audre! and nephews from Denver, Austin Carol Carey Leblique says “I
Audre Coia-Kurowski wrote that and Chicago came to Los Angeles received a signed letter from
she never thought she would still to visit me for Mother’s Day. I was Cardinal Joseph W. Tobin, C.Ss.R.
thrilled! of the Archdiocese of Newark in
response to my sending him a
I’ve been performing with a copy of my original poem “Holy
25-member vocal group that Innocent September 2, 2015.” I
entertains weekly at convales- sent my poem to him because he
cent homes, retirement homes is sympathetic to the plight of ref-
and assisted living facilities. Our ugees. My poem is an outpouring
presentation includes about 25
songs from the 1930-1960 era.
It is wonderful to see everyone
brighten up with the memory of
songs from long ago.”

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of the tragic death of 3-year-old A Healthy Business Born in the Lab Emily Roubicek Parry at her Long
Aylan al Kurdi, who was washed Island home. My sons, Alexander
ashore on a beach near the Turk- As a lab assistant at Dominican, Maria Dellanina ’17 watched and Michael, are now 24 and both
ish resort of Bodrum. Following is nutrition students spend months developing amazing products in living at home. They work at a
an excerpt of his beautiful letter: ‘I a course on experimental foods, only to abandon them at the end tech company not far from where
believe your artistic eye and heart of the semester. “I was thinking, ‘But you worked so hard!’” she we live. Alex finished his degree at
have captured the tragedy of that recalls. When it was her turn to take the course, she and a class- Lewis University and Michael is in
horrific scene. I had thought when mate, Cheryl Fitzgerald ’04 (who had returned for a post-bacca- the process, and he also works at
the picture was first published, it laureate degree), decided to make a product they could take with Jewel. My big health news is that I
would move hearts in such a way pride and confidence into the marketplace. The result: Guiltless had a stroke on December 1, 2017.
that people could not help but be Guac, a low-fat, low-calorie guacamole. The pair substituted fiber- I spent 17 days in hospital rehab,
supportive of other children in the and protein-rich beans and vegetables for some of the high-fat came home and continued rehab
same dire circumstances. There is avocado. It was the top-rated product in a showcase judged by near my home. I had a driving
no easy solution it appears to the industry experts. “We got great feedback, and it encouraged us to assessment as part of the rehab
challenges that face the Church start a small business,” Fitzgerald says. Guiltless Guac now comes requirements and passed so am
and the world. We must continue in six flavors and is a hit at food festivals and farmers markets. able to drive again. I am feeling
to be a voice for the voiceless. You Through their startup company, The Guiltless Garden, the class- well, though I have some issues
have done that, Carol, and I thank mates-turned-business partners plan to develop other snacks for with my knees and lower legs. On
you for taking the time to send me which no atonement is required. a happy note, the boys and their
this piece of art.’” friend and I have gone to Aruba
Chicago had to o er. The favorites integrity, multilevel marketing four of the past six summers.
Judy Drabek Bettice writes “I am were Six Flags and the beach. Our company based in Dallas, TX-AMBIT People are nice and the weather is
always hoping to find some Rosary daughter, Clare, her husband, Dan, ENERGY. It serves 16 states, perfect.”
sisters here in the Mid-South. and their two teenagers joined Washington, D.C., a part of Can-
I’ve been living and teaching in us to help with the little boys, so ada and Japan. There are weekly Elizabeth Freidheim writes
Memphis since 1965 after I got my we were surrounded by all of our meetings, regional conferences/ “Three of us attended the 55th re-
MAT at Notre Dame. I have four grandchildren. It was good to be trainings, and annual Ambition. It union in 2017. Beth Klein and her
grown children, three of whom live together to dispel some of the is enjoyable to meet a new crowd sister attended the 60th reunion
in the Memphis area. The fourth sadness of Andrew’s illness. It is of people from all over. I serve on which had about seven attendees.
lives in Texas. I have taught in di- unfortunate to realize that all of the RNC Presidential Advisory Mary Ellen Martin Kizior and I
ocesan Catholic schools, Memphis our news has to do with Andrew. Board. We attended a dinner in both signed up because we live
City Schools, and in the Refugee But that is the story of our lives Washington, D.C., sponsored by close. We had fun chatting with
Empowerment Program. In 1987, I now!” George W. Bush. The food was each other and two ladies from
got a Master’s in Pastoral Studies. great and the rose bouquet on the two older classes. Staging for the
My husband, Jerry, and I are also Patricia Egan-Turner writes “I table was gorgeous. I won the ta- reunion has changed. Instead of
active with adult faith formation at have been involved with a high ble decoration game so I took it to holding the luncheon in the dining
our parish. In 2015, we took a scenic hall, elegant small tables were
train trip from Memphis that spread around campus. When
included Chicago, Glacier Park, Donna Carroll circulated to our
Seattle and San Francisco. It was table, I told her I had attended
a wonderful adventure, and we a Rosary graduation the previ-
managed to see Herb and Elaine ous summer. She confirmed my
Shylin Waco Thompson as well observations that Dominican Uni-
as Pat Fagan DeFrank for lunch. versity demographics have shifted
I also stay in touch with Eileen in age and ethnic background.
Kenny. Memphis is a great place DU is successfully reaching new
to visit, and we would be happy to groups with its blend of faith-
introduce you to the Delta music based education.
and foods.”
I am still working in government.
Mary Beth Vander Vennett Tallon It is still fun, so I haven’t planned
says “Andy and I have spent much my exit yet, but live in the security
time traveling to Poughkeepsie that I could leave at my pleasure.
to be near our son, Andrew, who What to do then? Perhaps join the
is now in hospice care. We also battle for health care. It would be
welcomed our four grandsons good if the grandchildren of the
(Andrew and Marie’s children) for class of 1962 could enjoy as much
two weeks in June. We saw many health security through their lives
of the sights that Milwaukee and as we now enjoy.”

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Kay Pielsticker Coleman writes “I the greatest film I have seen in a who are living unsheltered; a situ- She is the youngest member of a
can’t remember when I wrote last long time. Carter and I know we ation I try to deal with as a public research program involving high
so you may or may not know that I have to downsize and I am finding o cial. I ask you to join me in this school students at the University
ran and won re-election to the San it di cult to think of leaving our prayer. Does anyone remember of Texas at Austin. In June, she and
Anselmo Town Council. I am the house and moving 46 years of the name of the Art teacher/sculp- her professor gave me a tour of
only woman on the council and I stu ! I do it a little at a time and tor during our time at Rosary? her nanochemistry lab. What an
just couldn’t leave it to the men, we are giving it a year before we I recently returned a statue she experience to be in the same build-
especially when one of them came put it on the market. Some of you made of Thomas Aquinas, which ing where I was a TA! My husband
over, SAT IN MY KITCHEN and from Fribourg days may remem- was given to me for graduation and I still enjoy our high rise living,
told me not to run because I was ber Mimi Schubert (now Maury?) by Jane Lampe Groh ’60. I thank overlooking a park, within walking
TOO OLD! That did it. I ran and Her grandson, Arlo, lives with his Mary Kremer, OP for helping me distance of the zoo, six museums,
won, beating his candidate royal- parents here in Marin County so to ‘downsize.’ “ and a free outdoor theater. We try
ly!! I have immersed myself in all I see her a couple of times a year. to keep in shape by going several
the councilperson meetings and She never changes! Life goes on Gloria Adams Mills said that while times a week to the local YMCA.
am often out three nights a week. ladies, sometimes too fast and it was a cold winter for Virginia, Life has been good to us.”
It keeps me occupied. My ‘grands’ sometimes too slowly. We had she had forgotten what real cold
(9, 8, 5, 4 and 26) keep me hop- special times together and may was until spending New Year’s Eve Ginny Lane says summer in
ping. However, I did have time to there continue to be blessings in in Chicago. She had a wonderful Oklahoma was just plain HOT!
sneak out to a movie and ‘RBG’ is our lives. Each Sunday, I pray for dinner with many old friends and “Fortunately, most places are
all those mothers and children family, but the walk out to the air-conditioned and my condo
car afterward convinced her that complex has a swimming pool! I
It’s a Journey, Not a Destination Virginia’s cold was okay. “Spring am a lap swimmer. I still volunteer
and early summer brought lots at Clarehouse, a place for individ-
As a history major at Dominican, Nicole Lang ’07 decided to accept of rain, so the garden thrived. I uals at the end-of-life who can no
an internship o er from Metra as a kind of experiment. “I hadn’t had bumper crops of asparagus longer be cared for at home. It is a
planned to seek a career in transportation, but when the option and beans and black raspber- wonderful place. Though you may
became available, I thought, ‘Why not?’” she recalls. “If I didn’t like ries. The peach, apple and pear think it is sad and gloomy, people
it, it was only a summer.” Lang loved it and went on to build an trees were loaded, and the other are so well cared for that it is a joy
impressive career at one of the nation’s biggest and busiest rail veggies came in. I was disgust- to be there. Life is good though
systems, which carries more than 80 million passengers a year. A ingly healthy this year except aging isn’t fun. The trip of six years
human resources manager, Lang helped Metra fully implement a for a lousy problem with one of ago to our reunion now seems that
pioneering system that allows employees to report close-call safety my eyes that prevented me from it would be much more complicated.
issues. Last year, she made Mass Transit magazine’s list of the driving and being able to see my I do look forward to hearing from
industry’s top 40 professionals under 40. And she was promoted computer keyboard and phone all of you!”
this summer to an HR management position. “Internships are an keys for some weeks. Things are
extremely important avenue to discover whether a field is right for slowly getting better. Many thanks Mary Kavanagh Sherry says “I
you,” she says. “Helping people get where they need to go as safely to Carolyn Sweeney Judd and am fairly well-settled in Central
as possible makes me happy.” Corrine Carnivele Hanley for Wisconsin after a year and a half
stepping up to gather our news in Wisconsin Rapids. Yes, it is flat,
and continue to keep us all in but there are sand dunes south
touch.” of here that look like the Indiana
Dunes. Not much grows here other
Carolyn Sweeney Judd writes than cranberries and evergreens.
“I happily report that our family Anything I plant must like acid soil,
cabin in Southeastern Colorado sand, and be distasteful to deer.
was spared from the huge This is a big shift from 42 years in
spring wildfire. We are among the Twin Cities, but I am getting
the fortunate, for many homes the hang of it. Last year, I o ered
were burned. In the last update, my services to tutor at a community
I reported being in Houston, re- technical college, knowing many
covering from Hurricane Harvey. of their students need extra help
No one in my extended family in English and writing. Sadly the
was a ected by the flooding, so program doesn’t accept volun-
again our prayers were answered. teers, so I had to be hired! I love
On a more even keel, my family working with that population, but
is thriving. Our five grandchil- a program reorganization is in the
dren are wonderful and fun. My works, so I am looking for another
oldest, at 15, proclaims that she calling. If nothing turns up, I may
wants to be a chemistry teacher. go back to school. Geology would

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“Helping people get where they need to go as safely as possible makes me happy.”

Nicole Lang ’07

interest me, mainly because it is residential care in the not-too- 1964 Sinsinawa Dominican magazine.
something older than I am. I com- distant future: “Attic Angel is a It was heart warming to read the
pletely agree with Ginny: aging retirement community for older Mary McGough Schultze stories of the Dominican sisters’
isn’t much fun, however, I wouldn’t adults living independently. It also Class Agent immigration experiences. I was
trade all I’ve learned for a more has specialized memory care and especially delighted that one of
youthful body. Well, maybe knees.” a health center. What makes Attic We have reached an age where we our classmates had a story of her
Angel special are the more than are losing more and more people own to tell. “An Immigrant’s De-
1963 300 ‘angel’ women volunteers who played a role in our history. It sires Remain,” was written by
who help. We drive residents to is time to tell your stories to your Sister Marie Stella Storch, OP.
Susan Flynn medical appointments and we family and we need to talk about Her parents immigrated to America
Class Agent are trained to transport residents our special time at Rosary and from Germany to provide a better
and wait for them while they are the special friends from then. I at- life for their four children after
Hello to the ’63 Rosarians, treated. I always ask where people tended the Rosarian luncheon and having lived through the horrors
are from and the answers are was delighted to see four tables of World War II. Starting over with
This past June, 22 of us gathered amazing. One woman I drove was of the class of 1963 having a ball. a new language, customs, new
at the college for our 55th reunion. an air traffic controller during WW And they looked good! Put the laws, and new jobs was not easy
The campus looks wonderful, both II while the men were overseas in luncheon on your calendar now. for her parents, but she and her
familiar and new. We had a great combat. She continued doing it siblings adapted quickly and had
time with much talk and laughter when the war was over until she I heard from Joan Canale Szuberla teachers who helped them along
at lunch on Saturday, and more in retired. Her husband stayed home who has retired and seconded my the way. Being called “aliens”
the class suite in Murray Hall. Sat- and tended to their kids. Another invite for Reunion 2019. seemed funny at the time but
urday evening, we all sat together woman raised and trained sled has a more negative connotation
at Mass in the Chapel, followed dogs for Iditarod dog-sled races. Pat Connery Koko came out of today. When they proudly became
by dinner and more talk in the She used Polish codes to train retirement to run the OP Annual American citizens, they knew they
dorm. Sunday, we attended the them so no one could learn her se- Book Fair. With husband, Paul, and had truly arrived and were “no
prayer service for classmates who cret commands. As volunteers, we daughter, Marie, Pat enjoyed a QM longer aliens or foreign visitors.” In
have died since 2013 (10 in our wear name tags that also tell the cruise around the UK, which in- an email from Sister Marie Stella,
class), and then had a nice brunch year we started as angels. 1989 is cluded the rescue of a sailor mid- she thanked me for getting in
in the Dining Hall. We said our my group! It is a blessing to help ocean. Paul’s Myasthenia Gravis touch with her and added, “I am so
good-byes and headed home with because so many of that age are has curtailed travel but Marie is proud of my courageous parents.”
much to ponder about—education, great examples of what is possible home often to help update the
experience and existence. and how they not only survived house for Dad. In February, Kerry Hubata
but prospered.” celebrated the 50th anniversary
Martha Amen Daly shared some Congratulations to Renee Durand of the founding of the Evanston
of her experiences as a Eucharis- Thank you, Susie for sharing the Borra and husband, Pier. In School of Ballet. Past and present
tic Minister at St. Louis University stories and for being an “angel.” recognition of their support, the students, their parents and other
Hospital. It was very moving to vi- Inspiring! Dominican University College of friends of the school attended the
sualize the comfort the Eucharist Health Sciences bears their name. open house. Kerry continues to
brings to those in the hospital. Susan Hartnett Lutz, one of Pier is serving on the Board of teach at the school. Congratula-
our class artists, is moving from Trustees. tions, Kerry!
Judy May Ziemba and husband, Arizona back to the Midwest and
Ron, continue their travels and are is packing up her art studio while Barb Dineen writes she is Kathy Albright Roth and I
looking forward to a train trip in husband, Fred, ponders the move preparing for a cruise on the St. enjoyed a tour of the College of
Russia this fall. of his tractor collection. Lawrence from Montreal after Health Sciences in Parmer Hall in
dealing with esophageal cancer. April. We met the Founding Dean,
Debbie Hegberg Heer was not Beth Linskey has sold her jam She is still active with the Ladies Kavita Dhanwada, and faculty
able to attend the reunion because business but remains busy with of Charity clothing center, several members of Nutrition Sciences,
she was in Turkey with a group travel and volunteer work at a inner city meal programs and Post-Baccalaureate Pre-Medical,
of Turkish exchange students re- non-profit farming group. parish activities while staying Nursing and Physician Assistant
turning home from their American connected to Barb Riley Rygiel, Studies. They took the time to
Field Service (AFS) stay in the The email group continues and Jean Kozlik Brady and Mary share information about their
United States. a number of classmates are on O’Boyle Lyons. programs and showed us the state
Facebook. Join in when and where of the art teaching and learn-
Susie Thompson Drane was also you can. Our 1963 endowed 1966 ing facilities. With cutting-edge
inspiring, telling us about her scholarship continues to grow. programs and facilities, Domin-
volunteer work with seniors. She You can contribute to it every Judy Purvin Scully ican students are truly receiving
has done considerable research year and you can contribute to the Class Agent a distinctive education. It was
on finding places to live for older Dominican fund for other needs of very impressive and made me
friends and family members. Susie the university. Please continue to “Immigration, What’s Your Story?” proud to have been on the Board
sent me some details because our be generous. Caritas et Veritas. was the focus of the January 2018
class is and/or will be looking for

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of Trustees and part of the capital live in the hallowed dorms and to dren from nearly 1 to 13. We have anniversary at Thanksgiving this
campaign that made Parmer Hall study the scientists and the art of a riotous time with the kids and year! As he says, ‘We got married
(which houses the College of Cambridge. When the program the two huskies. Mary Wingfield on Thanksgiving Day so I would
Health Sciences) possible. Having was over, she joined some British Grace and I are planning to attend always have something to be
served as Chair of Academic birders to observe birds in the the Girl Scout Senior Roundup thankful for!’ All the kids, kids-
Affairs when the nursing program countryside. Reunion in Vermont. My husband in-law, and grands are coming
was approved, I was especially has a trial in Vermont at the same home for the celebration. One of
gratified to see and hear that it is Kay Brennan took a Rhine River time, so we will drive up. Loren the five priests on the altar is still
thriving. (One of our scholarship cruise in April—three days in Lake is still active as a judge and very alive and active at age 90, so he is
recipients graduated from the Como, seven days on the cruise, active in the University Club. He coming to dinner and then we will
nursing program this May and and two days in Amsterdam. She runs his discussion group Port, renew our vows. In the meantime,
has spoken very highly of the pro- said that the basilica in Como Cigars, and Politics on the roof of we continue to travel to see our
gram.) Kathy Kahler Matthews, had wonderful tapestries, that the club and offered his Supreme family. We went to Phoenix and
Maureen O’Rourke Cannon and the cathedrals in Strasbourg and Court Review on July 12, consid- spent a long weekend in Flagstaff
Mitzi Battista Witchger joined Cologne were gorgeous, and that ered the most prestigious event with two of the families. We treated
us for lunch at Recipe Box Café in the Keukenhof Garden in Lisse was the club offers. At the present ourselves to an early anniversary
the Parmer Hall atrium after the amazing. She was surprised to see time, we are catless but are trip to Ireland in May. Ray has
tour. We enjoyed catching up on that a firm in Gurnee, IL installed looking. I would like to downsize never been, but Marysue Brown
what’s been happening since our one of the tulip beds. and my husband wants to put an and I hitchhiked throughout
luncheon last June. Suzy Wills addition on the house.” the area on our way home from
Kessler, Mary Jones Harrison and Barbara Barry officially retired Fribourg in 1965. It was harder to
Joan Condon (our adoptee from as a neuropsychologist. After a Maureen’s response to Kitty’s scale Blarney Castle to kiss the
Mundelein) who had planned to three-week cultural tour of Japan, news was: “You have quite a clan!!!! Blarney stone this time! Our chil-
drive in from the Milwaukee area, she is taking a bridge class, and I spent nine days in Cape Cod for dren are all doing well. Our son is
cancelled because of a weather one in watercolor painting. Barb our annual sisters’ week. Sheila working on his next promotion to
alert for snow, but expect to join looks forward to a birthday family Doran Lima ’76, Kathy Doran Half- Lt. Colonel. He is hoping that his
us in the fall at our next luncheon. reunion in Kona followed by a penny ’69 and Eileen Thompson, deployment days are over as he
Please email me if you would like three-week visit to Cuba. who attended Rosary for two years has done his share. Our daughter,
to be included. and graduated from Illinois State, Kate, is working on her disserta-
Lina Fruzzetti sent the following: were at Sheila’s house. We take tion for a Doctorate in Educational
Maureen Connolly is working on “Akos and I will leave for Italy to turns visiting each house every Leadership at Northern Arizona
a new novel and seeking an agent/ the Bologna Film Festival to attend year and this year it was Sheila’s University. She hopes to be hood-
publisher for her first novel. She a screen of our documentary film. turn to host the giggles. It is fun ed next May. Her daughter, Maya,
is happier having left medicine We will have a number of students because she lives on the Cape, is scheduled for her First Commu-
this past winter but is looking for and faculty from Brown who will Eileen lives near Baltimore, Kathy nion next May also, and our oldest
income and is available for copy- attend and many Eritreans to in Oak Park and I live in Indy. grandson, Aidan, will graduate
writing. Good luck with your new whom this film will mean a lot. My husband’s health is deterio- from high school then too. We
career, Maureen! These are Eritreans who left home rating but we have been blessed may end up renting an Airbnb the
in early 1970 and were given because he was given three years whole month! I hear from Sister
Mariann Haberle Leahy is still citizenship for being half Italian. in 2004. It is still difficult to watch.
following her passion in the arts. I am eagerly awaiting their com- I still work almost full time as a Teresa Margaret (Suzy Brink-
She sent photos, noting they were ments and Q&A.” (As mentioned substitute teacher and really enjoy man) rather infrequently as she is
from her latest show “From the in an earlier Dominican Magazine, the atmosphere and the students. suffering from dementia and has
Kiln” at Turquoise Tortoise Gallery we were fortunate to have “In My four children are all doing very a hard time writing. Kerry Hubata
in Sedona. Go on YouTube and My Mother’s House” screened at well —blessings for sure—and my and I are planning to visit her next
search Mariann Leahy, to see the Dominican. Several members of 12 grandchildren (ranging from 6 summer for her 75th birthday, but
talk she gave, which included the Class of ’66 were there to show to 30) are all thriving. My grand- that may change as her condition
giving a shout-out for Dominican our support for Lina and proudly son Tim is working on his Master’s deteriorates. I am so glad I was
University. watched as Donna conferred an in Business Analytics while serv- able to see her for her Golden
honorary doctorate.) ing in South Korea in the Army. Jubilee in 2015. Carpe diem!
Janice Ciastko Lane reported she He will be back in Ft. Sill, OK, with
had a wonderful weekend visit Kitty Yore Smith has been in his wife and two daughters in Judy Schleitwiler Wolicki
with Meg Cameron Beeler at her touch with Maureen Doran November. I am awaiting great- reported: “My life continues to
lovely home in Skokie. Rosary and Zimmerman and reported: “I am grandchild number 10 in August be full and joy-filled. I especially
her 1966 classmates were indeed now officially a movie star, or and number 11 in December. I am enjoy my three grandchildren, my
part of the conversation. In late maybe starlet. Well, okay, I was an certain I am not old enough for daughters and son-in-law. I have
August, she traveled to England extra on a film Reunion by Cheryl that craziness!!!!” a new grandniece and two new
to attend a study program on the Rhodes and am lending her some grandnephews who were born this
campus of Cambridge Univer- clothes for a film she is in next Terry Wilkenson Pawlik wrote: year. My immediate family now
sity. She noted it was a treat to week. My son now has seven chil- “Ray and I will celebrate our 50th numbers over 90! My work as

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Field Secretary of the Illinois Yearly neapolis. Our three children have than I could ever have imagined! days in Spain at the end of the
Meeting of the Religious Society so far given us seven grandkids These past 50 years flew by, but trip. The weather was not ideal,
of Friends keeps me busy visiting —five boys. I am still serving on a provided many wonderful experi- but we were dressed for it. We
meetings in Wisconsin, Iowa, Mis- few boards (one soon to be called ences and memories.” basically ate and drank our way
souri, Indiana, and Illinois. I offer “Reform for Illinois” —don’t laugh) through all the regional pastries
programs, retreats, workshops, and and traveling. Soon I am headed Mary Celine Baier Rütschi re- and wines as we visited various
resources. My favorite part of the to boundary waters in Minnesota ports: “Our second grandchild is towns, churches, markets and
job is listening to people’s stories. and to Tuscany.” now 6 months old and lives only wineries. Olive and almond trees
I’m also still serving occasionally a five-minute walk away. Last were everywhere, and tiered
as a chaplain at Lutheran General Nancy King Murray wrote. “I month, my husband and I took a crops are all harvested by hand.
Hospital in Park Ridge. Wishing I retired from practice in 2016 and four-day trip to Bavaria, Germany. The scenery, as well as the sites
was spending more time visiting stepped up the travel. Has anyone While there, we crossed into we visited, was spectacular. The
with friends from Rosary. No ex- done the wine road in Bosnia? For Austria to visit Hitler’s birthplace. Portuguese were friendly, and
pectations of ever retiring though.” the past 20 years, I have met with It is a small, baroque town, badly all spoke with great pride about
three friends and a French teacher in need of restoration. A rock from the area in which they lived and
According to Sue Jerman Adams, virtually every Saturday to read a concentration camp stands in worked. Our side excursion to
“For a group of women of a certain and discuss classic and contem- front of his house, which is locked Fatima was very moving and one
age, we’re not doing badly, are we? porary literature. After Rosary and the windows blackened. No of the highlights of the trip.
We are writing novels, acting in and before law school, I got my one knows what to do with the
movies, traveling the world, rejoic- MA at Northwestern in English place, and until a decision is We flew down to Florida to take
ing over ever-expanding families, literature and now I am back there made, funds for the town will be my parents out to dinner on May
contributing to the liveliness of again taking classes through their withheld. My daughter and I also 18, their 75th wedding anniversa-
our communities ... it is pretty alumni program.” spent a week in Wales. What a ry. They avoided winter by spend-
impressive! I decided to explore a change for the better the Welsh ing five months in their home
bit more and took a trip to Alaska; Alice Kuehne Finn and her have experienced since the mines away from home, so the family
a National Geographic cruise husband, John, have been busy closed. We have been living celebration wasn’t until June 9.
along the Inside Passage, on board traveling and celebrating their outside Zurich, Switzerland for There were 54 family members
with 63 other passengers, none 50th wedding anniversary. She 47 years, which makes traveling coming from all over to join in
of whom I met. Something I have wrote: “John and I have been busy easy.” the celebration. Mom and Dad re-
wanted to do ever since Anne Gar- during these past six months. On newed their vows at St. Mary’s in
vey Maggiorana told me about an February 6, we departed for the Bev Doherty wrote, “My husband, Riverside where they lived for 25
Alaskan cruise she took just after 81-day cruise on Holland America Thomas, and I have moved from years before moving to Graue Mill
we graduated, when she slept on for the second half of our “world Maryland to Wisconsin. We are so in Hinsdale. At the luncheon that
deck and awakened to see whales cruise.” The biggest attraction was happy to be living in Milwaukee followed, it was fun to be a part
alongside her boat. May more the many ports in Africa, the last where our youngest son, Matt, of so many lively conversations.
adventures continue to expand our of the seven continents we hoped and his wife, Gretchen, live. The For our 52nd anniversary on June
lives for many years to come!” to reach! Goal achieved!! Upon move also brings us closer to 11, we went out for a quiet dinner
arriving home, I started planning Minneapolis where our other son, for two!
Maureen E Magee wrote: “I attend- a small celebration of our 50th Pete, and his wife, Jenny, live.
ed Rosary as Sr. Maureen Patrick, wedding anniversary. Invitations Living in Milwaukee will make it Thanks one and all for your
CSJ. I have had the privilege of were created, favors were embroi- an easy commute to my family in contributions to our class news.
traveling on many wonderful trips. dered, a Mass of Thanksgiving Detroit and to friends in Chicago Please stay in touch. After all, it’s
The most recent was a small group with personally written vows were and Wisconsin. We are still in the just three years and counting until
tour of South Africa, Swaziland, arranged, etc. Our day included middle of the transition, which our 55th reunion. Congrats to the
Zimbabwe, and Botswana where I the Mass, a breakfast at our local has been a bear, but we are taking Class of ’68 for endowing a new
fulfilled a bucket list item of seeing 50+ year Rose Garden Café, our time. We plan to reconnect $100,000 scholarship!
giraffes in the wild. We also saw which included my maid-of-honor with friends and explore more of
elephants, rhinos, hippos, lions, Kathy Hytry Nichols, followed our Midwestern home. In the fall, 1967
leopard, cheetah, monkeys, hyena, by a gathering with relatives and we return to Florida. From there,
and antelope, not to mention the friends. Our son, Sean, joined us Thomas and I will be going to Elizabeth McGrath
beautiful birds! This visit to my for four days, and as a record- Spain. We are very fortunate to Class Agent
sixth continent was beautiful and ing engineer, provided music at have each other, our family, and
thought-provoking.” church, and recorded an original our health.” Sister Jean McGrath, CSJ retired
version of our song, “Moon River,” after 32 years as Principal of St.
Suzie Howard Bassi noted: “Our with the multiple instruments he In April, John and I thoroughly John Fisher Elementary School in
second generation includes two plays as well as with a beautiful enjoyed our Doro River cruise Chicago.
teachers and four lawyers: one solo from his partner, Shelly. It through Portugal, with a pre-trip
couple in Connecticut, one in Chi- was memorable and more perfect to the island of Madeira and two
cago, and one just moved to Min-

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1968 the Caritas Veritas Award. So relaxing vacation. We will attend Ed Hoy International’s big annual
many great reunion memories! a family wedding and post-Mac Customer Appreciation sale in
Suzanne Engle and Mary Duncan Race parties in Mackinac and August. Marita and her husband,
Thanks to everyone who sent in return to our annual family days at Cleve, have been running the fam-
Gemkow bios for the Rosary Dish that went the lake in August. I have wonder- ily business for several years. It
Class Agents out recently. Wonderful stories ful reunion memories and enjoyed is the largest supplier of art glass
and great reading! If you didn’t reconnecting with so many class- supplies to both the wholesale and
The Class of ‘68 had a fantastic send yours, it’s not too late to get mates. I hope our class Facebook retail market in North America.
50th reunion weekend in June! in on the fun of reconnecting with participation will continue to grow. The Reunion Committee met there
To those who came, thank you!! your classmates. Be sure to GET Thanks to Suzanne and Mary in Naperville in May at Marita’s
Seeing so many of you there was ON OUR PRIVATE FACEBOOK for keeping Facebook fresh and invitation. She gave them a tour of
what made it so special. Almost PAGE “Rosary College Class of re-energizing our class news.” the facility, and all marveled at the
one-half of our classmates whom 1968!” It’s just for us and full of beauty and quality of the art glass.
we could contact attended—a fun photos, news, and memo- Suzanne Engle heard from Barba-
great turnout! We heard from so ries. You can post news there, or ra Shekleton Hegele. Barbara sent Peggy May Schrage recently
many people that they had a great contact your class agents Mary regrets that she couldn’t attend went to San Francisco to attend
time. To those who were not able Duncan Gemkow (mdgemkow@ our reunion. She and her family her son Paul’s concert. He is the
to come, we missed you and we aol.com) and/or Suzanne Engle were attending her daughter’s conductor and artistic adviser for
want to hear from you! ([email protected]). We wedding on June 9. Barbara and the Midsummer Mozart Festival,
can post news for you on our her husband lived in the Chicago an annual concert series and the
Kudos to the “Posse” (aka Reunion Facebook page if you wish. We suburb of St. Charles for 43 years. only music festival dedicated
Planning Committee) for all their want to hear from you! They moved to Ave Maria, Florida exclusively to Mozart. He was the
hard work over eight months to four years ago. last student of George Cleve, who
reach out to everyone in our class Following our fabulous 50th re- founded the Festival in 1974 and
and to plan such a fun weekend union, Marilyn Freehill Jancewicz Kathy Wessels Cook and her died in 2015. Paul conducted the
—Carol Anderson Kunze, Marilyn spent a week with family relaxing husband, Robert, were busy over 2018 concert program, carrying
at the beach in South Haven, the summer, getting a new little on the festival tradition.
Freehill Jancewicz, Donna Renn, Michigan. She said it was incred- cottage ready for visitors in Iowa
ibly fun and restorative. “Being on Cedar River, about three and 1969
Marita Hoy Fenley, Mary Duncan Sr. Marilyn Freeocopious for our one-half hours from Chicago.
reunion skit was such fun that our They live in Cedar Rapids. Susan Kreuz McCoyd
Gemkow, Kathy Wessels Toborg reunion posse believes it has gone Class Agent
Cook, Tomi Campbell Hubert and to my head. You see, in August, Suzanne Engle’s daughter, Ellie
I started as one of Sister Janet Nelson, was home in Chicago for It doesn’t seem that long ago
Suzanne Engle. Welsh’s volunteers at Dominican’s a two-week visit at the end of Au- (1994!) that my class agent letter
McGreal Center. It houses the gust. Ellie is serving in the Peace began with “The big TWO FIVE is
President Donna Carroll’s recep- Sinsinawa Dominican Sisters’ Corps as a literacy specialist in upon us!” And now, in less than a
tion at her home was lovely. The archives. To help in the preserva- Jamaica, working in a small ele- year, the even bigger FIVE ZERO
next morning, her State of the tion of their history and stories is mentary school. She and her stu- will be upon us. News from our
University address was infor- of great interest to me.” dents just scored a big win for the class over the last 49 years has
mative and inspiring. Our alma school. They won first place for been sporadic.
mater has been transformed into Carol Anderson Kunze wrote in several environmental projects in
a comprehensive university, but July: “I am writing from the Clinch a countrywide contest sponsored There are some who regularly
retains the intimacy of a college. Marina in Traverse City, MI. After by LASCO Corporation. LASCO’s send me year-end letters with
Our class luncheon was so much being racing sailors for many Releaf Environmental Awareness news; some who keep in touch
fun. Marilyn’s performance as Sis- years, Jack and I are enjoying our Programme encourages primary by email, phone, or text for lunch,
ter Freecopious (wearing a nun’s fourth season as power boaters. school children to become in- dinner, or travel, or those who
habit!), with her sidekick Donna We are taking an extended cruise volved in recycling, tree planting, have attended one or more of the
Renn as Sister Rensselaer, will up the western shore of Michigan and conservation. Her students nine reunions we have celebrated
go down in the annals of reunion with various stops in Traverse collected more than 132,000 to date. And then there is Face-
history as unique and hilarious! Bay, Little Traverse Bay, Macki- plastic water bottles from several book. The Rosary College Class of
We were so proud to present a nac Island, and hopefully a short communities for recycling. Among 1969 established a closed group
$100,000 check to President exploration in the North Channel the prizes are cash and desktop Facebook page in July of 2013.
Carroll (the most of any class!) before heading back south to our computers for the school. Ellie will Joining the group is a great way
to endow a second scholarship in home port in Macatawa Bay. The end her service in Jamaica in May to learn about what is going on at
all our names. Thanks to all who cute harbor towns offer markets, 2019. Dominican (aka Rosary); catch
contributed!! The awards dinner concerts, fairs, ice cream shops, up on news about the Class of
in the Social Hall was lovely. The art galleries, craft beer breweries Marita Hoy Fenley was hard at 1969; share pictures and posts of
O’Keefe Outstanding Volunteer and wineries—all facilitating a work all summer preparing for
Achievement Award went to ’68ers
Marilyn Freehill Jancewicz and
Carol Anderson Kunze. And ’68ers
Dianne Mathiowetz and Susan
Bakel Cohn were co-winners of

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interest; learn about and become A Dominican Star Runs for Alderman the history of the City Council. It’s the latest step
involved in the plans for our 50th in his remarkable transformation from teenage
Reunion, to be held June 7–9, 2019. As a community organizer on Chicago’s South- gang member in the Back of the Yards neighbor-
west Side, Berto Aguayo ’16 found that no matter hood to Obama Foundation national leadership
Speaking of reunions, Camille what issue he was trying to address, he would trainer, student body president, and summa
“Cami” Jarasek McNamee orga- invariably end up in the o ce of one alderman or cum laude graduate of Dominican. In addition
nized a 50th reunion for all the another. Lots of promises would be made; little to meeting challenges such as youth unemploy-
U.S. students who studied at the would change. “I realized that if I wanted to have ment and finding resources for education and
University of Fribourg in 1967-68. more impact I had to run for o ce myself,” he mental health care, Aguayo hopes to inspire
With her committee, she found says, during a break from knocking on doors and more residents to get involved in their communi-
the women who were at the Villa working the phones in the city’s Fifteenth Ward. ties. “This work is not done alone,” he says.
des Fourgeres, as well as the men If he wins his campaign to represent the ward
who were with Providence, Lasalle in February’s municipal elections, Aguayo, 24,
and Georgetown programs. It was would become one of the youngest members in
a fun-filled weekend of reminisc-
ing, getting reacquainted and joy. 1971 grandsons, my “little princes” were It is always good to meet friends
The Rosary grads were: Patricia going to be blessed with a “little over food and that is exactly what
Bobeck ’70, Ann (Beth) Rasmus- Kathy Klem Large princess.” Nancy and her family are Linda Grzesiakowski Hanrath did
sen Bonner ’70, Mary Dailey, Class Agent very excited and said “I’m finally recently. She and Sue Mack-
knitting something pink!” iewicz Sowa had a wonderful time
Irene Connors Golec, Catherine Nancy Sidote Salyers wrote reconnecting and plan to meet
that at the end of January it was Recently, Annie Vonderhaar and Jacque LaSalle Bolger the next
Kenzie La Plante, Mary Anne discovered that her mother had I had a long “phone visit.” I caught time for a mini lunch reunion.
multiple metastases in her lungs. her in the closing days of the
McDonough, Linda Cowel Mc- They worked with hospice and had school year and she was planning Marty Kahler Van Ness wrote
additional quality time with her un- to spend the summer taking “a that she has been selling real
Guire, Cami Jarasek McNamee, til she passed peacefully on April very long nap.” She proudly shared estate since 1988 and backed
Marlene Brumleve Pickett, Mary 30. Her mother had taught third that her granddaughter had re- away from her wonderful job
Ann Piwowarczyk ’70, Lynn Giles, and fourth grade for more than cently graduated with her honors with the Butterball Turkey Talk in
40 years, and many of her former high school diploma and simul- 2017. She had been a supervisor
Pamela Kirk, Patricia Rink, Janet students were able to visit with taneously earned her associate’s with the talk line for many years.
Skupien and Barbra Neininger her until the end. Shortly before degree. In the fall, she will attend (Unbelievable questions I’m sure
Yablonski. she died, Nancy was able to share the University of Nevada in Reno. and worthy of a book contract one
the news that after having four
Do you have Rosary College 1965–
69 memories, photos, or memora-
bilia you’d like to share either on
Facebook, or email, or mail for our
50th Reunion? Who remembers
“What Makes Bunny Run?”; the
Grill; family-style dinners in the
dining hall; two pay phone booths
per floor in Power; Mary Iannucilli
raising and lowering the flag on
the second floor Cloister Walk
while singing the “Star Spangled
Banner.”

I was able to attend the 50th
reunion of the Class of ’68 this
June. Wow! Those women had fun
during their four years at Rosary
and most definitely at their 50th
Reunion. I hope we can do the
same June 7–9, 2019. Let me or
the alumni o ce hear from you,
if you have ideas or suggestions,
or a willingness to help plan our
50th. Please be sure to join the
private Class of 1969 Facebook
page for a quick and easy way to
keeping touch with our class-
mates!

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day.) Her daughter Nora is work- A Showcase for Courage in Adversity 1975
ing part-time and daughter Nina
and husband, Alex, just welcomed The Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio, is working hard these Mary Alice Griesinger
baby Wilhelmina in April 2018. days to establish a legacy that goes far beyond honoring the game’s Class Agent
She joins her big brother Wolfgang top athletes. It also is growing like crazy, with a nearly $900 million
who is 3 1/2. Marty and her hus- complex in the works that includes playing fields and player care Loretta Ragsdell earned the
band, Ron, have been bitten by the facilities. For Robert Zmudka MBA ’93, a senior vice president of National Council for Higher Edu-
travel bug! In the last two years, GATX Corporation, it’s an exciting time to join the hall’s board of cation’s first Higher Educator of
they drove to Evergreen, CO, and trustees. He’s been involved with the organization for more than the Year Award. Loretta has taught
Santa Fe, NM, and spent three a decade, raising money for the hall and for a partner charity that students from pre-school to col-
and one-half weeks in Italy. They helps student athletes from the Chicago area succeed in college and lege and currently teaches English
joined Martha Larkin and family beyond. He points to the impact that hall of famers can have with and writing at City Colleges of
for a Germany Christmas cruise their stories of overcoming personal adversity. “It’s about so much Chicago (CCC).
and then onto Prague. By the time more than football,” says Zmudka. “The hall is about celebrating
you read this, she will have been excellence everywhere. It showcases the best of people. There’s a 1979
to Helsinki and St. Petersburg. On bigger lesson here, that you can do great things.”
a final note, she suggested that Hilary Ward Schnadt
“Each of us encourage some- 1972 her Rosary Yearbook from 1968, Class Agent
one we remember, but have not and we all looked for photos of
seen in years, to attend our 50th Chris Lapetina Kukla ourselves and remembered our Greetings classmates:
Reunion, for a fun and momentous Class Agent classmates and professors. Mari-
event!” I second her notion! lyn Dean brought her old Neil Di- It’s been a time of sorrows and
Chris Lapetina Kukla wrote: “Sev- amond album from the same time, joys since our last update. I am
Vicki Woodward shared the eral members of the Class of 1972 and we broke out in a spontaneous sorry to report that we lost a
happy news of her son Woody’s got together for a luncheon at the rendition of “Sweet Caroline.” classmate, Mary Beth McCormick
new baby, Benjamin, born on April Reserve Restaurant at the Village Dale, on January 26, 2018. May
24. Big sister Evelyn is 2 1/2 years Links in Glen Ellyn. Attendees in- Many of our classmates have re- happy memories help to sustain
old. Vicki and John’s daughter, cluded: Luisa Scala Buehler, Mary tired, others are still working, but her family and friends.
Morgan, lives near Woody and his Pat Thornton Collins, Marilyn all seemed to be doing well. It was
family in San Francisco and works Aiuppa Dean, Barb Podesta Fox, really great seeing everyone!” I am also sorry to tell you that
for Google in “experiential mar- Joan Hopkins, Chris Lapetina classmates lost family members
keting.” Vicki and John checked o Kukla, Mary Hajlo Taylor, Mary 1973 this winter. Both Alice Heinze
an Alaskan cruise this summer! Pat Weldon Woitas, and Julie and Margaret (Foy) Shields lost
Vicki continues, “I have become Driscoll Neptune. Lydia Colon Perera wrote from their mothers in February and
quite the political activist in my Cusco, Peru: Recently, I had a Tom Krickl lost his older brother
old age.” She has joined a local We all had a great time talking wonderful visit from some of David in January. Let me extend
women’s organization, Invest to about the good times we had at my best friends from Dominican condolences to the three of them
Elect Illinois. It was an o shoot of Rosary/Dominican, realizing that University. I have been living here on behalf of all of us.
the D.C. Women’s March and has it has been 50 years since we all for 20 years, so this was a very
grown from five original founders started as freshmen at the college. special occasion. Happier transitions are underway
to 149 in the first year. They have Time flies! Joan Hopkins brought for others. Karen Allegra (BA/
collected more than $700,000 to MA 1979) published her debut
support national candidates, both novel this year with HarperCollins,
incumbents and neophytes, who The Reluctant Fortune Teller. It’s
share preserving democratic prin- available through Barnes & Noble,
ciples and constitutional rights. Amazon and some independent
bookstores. I was pleased to be a
Al and I were blessed with little beta-reader as she was polishing
grandsons this spring. Luke it and am impressed that it is
Thomas arrived in Asheville, NC, translated into Korean, French,
and James Michael in Carmel, Czech, Slovakian, Dutch, Chinese,
IN. Everyone is very excited in and Bulgarian. You can learn all
the Large clan. We took a trip about it by visiting her website:
this summer from Helsinki to St. www.Keziahfrost.com.
Petersburg and then by river to
Moscow. I will fill you in later on Bridget and Joe Cortina (both
that one and keep those cards and double-alumni who went on to
letters comin’. earn MBAs from Dominican in
1982) have made a big change:

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“It’s about so much more than football.
The hall is about celebrating excellence everywhere.”

Robert Zmudka MBA ’93

“Joe and I retired after 50+ years I’m looking forward to spending My youngest son made a surprise since someone was back or how
of working careers. Bridget from all my free time researching and visit coming from Spain to the well you knew them back in the
JPMorgan Chase for the last 37 of writing more books.” Congratula- Netherlands where we spent a day. The conversations range over
the 50 years worked and Joe from tions, Theresa! week exploring Amsterdam and grandchildren now, and life events
Avon for the last 34 years of his Belgium. Following the holiday, with people connecting and even
50 years worked.” That called for a Kevin Killips deserves thanks the next adventure began with providing advice. He says these
celebration and celebrate they did. from all of us. He wrote, “I am national speaking coupled with events and people reorient his
Each bought the other a first class in my third term as Dominican’s community engagements to priorities and affirm his gratitude
ticket for a 33-day South Pacific Board Chair. It has been quite a redesign the American health for what he has and for what he
cruise. Next came a pilgrimage to run and a great honor to help the care delivery system to address has overcome. He also wants to
Ireland with the pastor from their university navigate the changing comprehensively the needs of the remind people that Dominican is
church. They finished off the year face of higher education. Domini- medically underserved.” still recovering from the Illinois
by purchasing and remodeling a can continues to perform and stay budget crisis, so donations are as
second home in The Villages, Flor- true to its mission and values. I Lou Guagenti ’80 invited me to importantly needed as ever. Many
ida. They are finding retirement think I may spend as much time join him in volunteering with Pro- of the kids and families most ben-
very rewarding and relaxing.” at the university as I did as an gram Action to Delivery Shelter efitting from a college degree are
undergrad! We are finishing our (PADS) in Cook County. PADS not in a position to bear the full
Nancy Greco sent word that current campaign and I hope that provides overnight shelter, dinner, cost. Do what you can to help.
she will be in California Suite by all my colleagues from the class breakfast, and a box lunch to in-
Neil Simon, June 21–July 14 with of ‘79 consider Dominican in their dividuals experiencing homeless- Diane Kaczmarek Lenihan went
MadKap Productions at Skokie charitable planning where possi- ness and economic challenges. to work for Commonwealth Edi-
Theatre, playing Millie in Visitor ble.” I’m glad to support our alma PADS is an extraordinary program son Company one week after our
from Philadelphia. mater financially and second his across the metro area looking for graduation and is now retired after
encouragement that classmates volunteers one day per month. more than 35 years of service
Helen Hollerich has been enjoy- give what they can now and in the (retired 1/1/2016). She is enjoying
ing her state’s benefit for those future. I’m very much hoping to see many spending time with her first
over-60—free audit classes at of you in June 2019 for our 40th grandchild.
the University of Wisconsin. She Anne Schurmann Klytta wrote, reunion. I’ve started recruiting for
and Ann (Van Hoomissen) Bixby “Dallas and I took our ‘bucket a reunion planning committee and DD Thurman and wife, Laura Pow-
organized an open house at a list’ vacation in July to England, am pleased to report that Robin ers ’81 also want to know where
rental home in Elmhurst on April Scotland and Ireland. We want to all the time went—their son is now
22, 2018. It was a mini-reunion extend special thanks to Helen Nystrom, Helen Hollerich, Rick engaged.
for those who had avidly followed Hollerich and Ann Bixby for their Wilk, Nancy Greco, and Nan Silva
their “Best Road Trip Ever” to help in planning this trip. Their have volunteered. Let me know 1983
mark the 40th anniversary of experiences were invaluable, and if you would like to join us. You
their Rosary-in-London trip. The we had a great time!” could do so by phone/email so Dr. Corinne Lally-Benedetto was
house’s ‘70s era interior design don’t hold back because you aren’t named president at Trinity High
was just the right setting for a Tom Krickl wrote to say, “I just in the Chicago area. School in River Forest. Corinne is
group of 79ers: Gus Simpson finished my fifth year teaching a 1978 graduate of Trinity and she
English as a Second Language *Please note that in the Spe- started at the college prep school
Archer, Kathleen Johnson, Teresa (ESL) classes at Wuyi University cial Edition 2018 Class News, January 22.
Shultz, Rick Wilk, Jim Twist (with in Jiangmen, Guangdong Prov- Dominican incorrectly listed the
wife Judy), Nancy Greco, Julie ince, China. It is really enjoyable name of Anita Heinze as Alice 1987
Lunkenheimer Jette and me. Mike working in a place where students, “Anita” Heinze. We apologize for
Hattie and Russina Rusev Grady parents and society respect this error. Rosemary Adams
from the Class of 1980 rounded teachers and where students want Class Agent
out the group. to learn. Unfortunately, the school 1980
calendar revolves around Chinese Tiana Brazzale is the new foun-
Theresa Kaminski wrote to say, New Year, so I can never make Linda Rohde dation development manager for
“This spring I received the Eugene it back to a Reunion Weekend. Class Agent Oral Health America (OHA). For
Katz Letters and Science Distin- The school year usually ends in the past seven years, Tiana was the
guished Faculty Award, which is mid-July.” Mike Hattie was happy to catch grants administrator at DuPage
presented annually to a College of up with friends he doesn’t see County-based Ray Graham
Letters and Science faculty mem- Rick Wilk shared, “After 25 often enough. He always seems to Association (RGA), a provider of
ber at the University of Wiscon- years with the U.S. Public Health find someone he hasn’t seen since services and supports to people
sin-Stevens Point in recognition Service I decided to start a new college. Again this year, a spouse with disabilities and their families.
of ongoing excellence in teaching, chapter. The first part of the next told him that they don’t have
scholarship and service. Then I chapter required a river cruise anything like our Alumni Week-
retired. I had attained the rank of from Switzerland through France, end—friendly and welcoming,
full professor in the Department of Germany and The Netherlands. regardless of how long it’s been
History and International Studies.

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1999 business was featured in Voyage the bridal party including Stephen Ryan Riske has joined the IT de-
Chicago, an online newspaper. Litewski ’11, Becky Clancy ’09, partment of Ford Motor Company as
Kara Green Hanak and Christy Elena Maans-Lornicz ’11, Dan a Mainframe Systems Engineer. He
Miklautsch Gumbach Tracey Janowitz was on cam- Wawzenek ’09, Zach Holtman ’09, recently moved to the Detroit area.
Class Agents pus in April to talk to students in and Tim Keenan ’10.
the Fashion Club about how she Tina Gustafson Biel and her hus-
Tim Trendel, MAEA ’08 is the new started her own athletic wear line Melissa Fleming Higgins and band, Bob, welcomed their third
boys basketball coach at Marist known as sweatyswag. The talk Mark Higgins, welcomed their child and first daughter, Caralai
High School. Tim begins his stint was part of Fashion Week, which third child, Keegan Timothy, on Irene Biel, on February 16, 2018.
at Marist as a physical education leads up to the Dominican Univer- March 27, 2018. Keegan is their She weighed in at 5 lbs 10 oz and
teacher, in addition to basketball sity Fashion Show. “tiebreaker baby” as they now her big brothers Aiden and Casey
coach. He spent the last eight sea- have two boys and one girl! already adore her!
sons with Providence Catholic. Agatha Rymanowska, MSCIS ’09
is the senior vice president for En- Matt Bohlman converted his Marcella Scaduto Blackwell and
2001 terprise Operations at Conversant, freelance business to an LLC with Tyler Blackwell welcomed Sebas-
and she was recognized as one of a new look and feel, visionscon- tian Crist Blackwell on February 7,
Alison Hecimovich “50 Women You Need to Know” nect.com. 2018. He joins big sister Milena.
Class Agent by MarTechExec. MarTechExec is
a rapidly growing online com- Megan Reidy-Champion and 2008
Alison Hecimovich, MSPED ’05 munity for marketing technology husband, Kevin, welcomed their
earned her Master of Arts in professionals. first child. Son Liam Hunter Catherine Calixto and Eileen
Illinois Principal Preparation from Reidy-Champion was born on Terrien
Concordia University Chicago in 2005 June 1, 2018, at 10:49 a.m. weigh- Class Agents
December 2017. This past year, Al- ing 7 lbs, 13 oz and 20 inches.
ison accepted a student services Tory Kathrein Theodossopoulos
teacher position in Kenilworth. Class Agent A Gift for the Record Books

Ann Wach-Tomory, a program Colleen Seisser, MLIS ’09, is a At their 50th reunion this spring, the Class of 1968 became the first
integrity and evaluation specialist selection specialist for the Au- Dominican class in history to establish two endowed scholarships at
with the U.S. Railroad Retirement rora Public Library, and she was the university. They raised $100,000 for students with great prom-
Board, was honored with an RRB elected to the Young Adult Library ise and financial need. A decade ago, the class set up a study abroad
“Award for Excellence” in the per- Services Association (YALSA) scholarship fund worth $75,000. Marilyn Freehill Jancewicz ’68, a
formance of her duties. An RRB Board of Directors for a three-year reunion organizer, attributes the class’s generosity in part to a sense
employee since 2011, Ann was cited term. Colleen’s position at the of unity and engagement inspired by memories of the tumultuous
as a “valuable resource” who is a Aurora Public Library includes the events of their commencement year. “It was a di cult time to be a
“very conscientious, dependable, selection of materials for teens at college student—the height of the Vietnam War, the assassinations
and hardworking employee.” all library locations. of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy,” she recalls. “We were
shell-shocked, and we all experienced it together.” Some reunion
2004 2006 attendees were returning to campus for the first time since gradu-
ation. Jancewicz described it as a heartfelt and eye-opening home-
Joe Bruno and Brandy Foster Annie Hughes Halsema and coming. “We were so impressed with the students and the campus,”
Class Agents Diane Schultz Meske she says. “People could not believe the growth.”
Class Agents
Fallon DePetro Drake said, “I have
a 2 1/2 year old daughter, Mia, Ivan Tsios was promoted to Director
who is the joy of my life. In 2017, of Economics and Valuation Ser-
I received my SPHR certification vices at Baker McKenzie Law Firm.
and am enjoying my job as human
resources leader.” 2007

Sarah Schwarting and mom, Mark Carbonara, Stephanie
Susan Schwarting ’74, have joined Lieberman and Stephanie Adams
to create The Center for Serenity Taylor
in Oak Park. Susan is a certi- Class Agents
fied meditation instructor and
Reiki master practitioner. Sarah Matt Litewski wed Ashlie Giu re
is a clinical therapist and does ’09, MLIS ’11 at St. Giles Church
counseling and coaching. Their in Oak Park on April 21, 2018.
There were multiple alumnae/i in

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“We were so impressed with the students and the campus.
People could not believe the growth.”

Marilyn Freehill Jancewicz ’68

Andrea Williams, CLU®, CFP®, Hauling in Franklin Park. Jeanette Jill Strand MLIS ’02, Senior Roosevelt University, where she
financial advisor, is the first Afri- started DCH four years ago as a Manager, Library & Knowledge served for nearly 20 years in the
can-American woman in North- college senior and single mother. Information Systems at Fish & human resources department,
western Mutual’s history to be The company has grown from Richardson, has been named a starting as Associate Director in
awarded Forum Membership, one $50,000 in revenue to $1.3 million 2018 “Unsung Legal Hero,” by 1998 and becoming Vice Presi-
of the company’s top honors. She in 2017. DCH’s growth puts Jea- Minnesota Lawyer. The award dent in 2016.
was recognized by Northwestern nette in an exclusive club: Fewer recognizes the most talented and
Mutual-Chicago as Financial than 2 percent of U.S. businesses dedicated legal support profes- Christine Stannard MBA ’90 is
Advisor of the Year. Williams has owned by women break the $1 sionals in Minnesota. the Vice President of Global Sales
dedicated her financial services to million mark. at Ocean Optics based in Largo,
underserved markets, focusing on Kasia Gonnerman MALIS ’03 FL. Ocean Optics is a leading
women and the African-American Colleen Zitkus joined the ranks was named Director of Vanderbilt supplier of spectral solutions for
community. Seeing the disparities of the Prospect Heights Police University’s Central Library. Kasia optical sensing.
in these communities, Andrea has Department in June. While attend- came to Vanderbilt in April from
made it her mission to make a dif- ing Dominican, she completed St. Olaf College Libraries, where Robert Zmudka MBA ’93 was
ference as a leader and advocate. an internship with the Prospect she served as head of research and elected to the Pro Football Hall of
She has been featured in Forbes, Heights Police Department and instruction for the past decade. Fame Board of Trustees. He had
USA Today, Chicago Tribune, Roll- after graduation, started in the previously served on the Hall of
ing Out, Black Enterprise and she department as a records clerk. Scott Mehaffey MSOL ‘03 was Fame’s Advisory Board. Robert is
was named to the “Top 40 under appointed as the Executive Di- the senior vice president and chief
40 Game Changers” through the Graduate Alumnae/i rector of the Farnsworth House, a commercial officer of Rail North
Urban Business Roundtable in Class News National Trust Historic Site located America, GATX Corporation.
Chicago. in Plano, IL. Scott assumed his
new role on April 2. Scott has an School of Education
2009 School of impressive 30-year career history
Information Studies of public- and private sector lead- Tara Kristoff MAT ’06 is the Prin-
Lindsay Buoniconti and Shannon ership focused in the Chicago area. cipal of Lincoln School in Brook-
Sromek Hickey David R. Bryant MALS ’69, field. Tara began her career as a
Class Agents counsel to Bryant Legal Group of Dennis Johnson MLIS ’07 is a lawyer. After having her first child
Chicago and a former lecturer in librarian for the School of Justice in 2001, Tara stopped working as
Jerica Copeny MLIS ’11 was Law Librarianship, was appointed Studies at Rasmussen College. a lawyer, enrolled in a teaching
named an Innovator in the Library as a member of the Environmental program at Dominican University
Journal’s 2018 Movers & Shakers Quality Commission of the Village Emily Kofoid MLIS ’09 was hired and earned her master’s degree
edition. She works as the Civic of LaGrange on June 11, by Village as the Library Director at the and teaching certification in
Data Scientist at Evansville’s Van- Board President Tom Livingston. Graves-Hume Public Library in 2006.
derburgh Public Library. Mendota, Minnesota. After college,
Sharon Mader MALS ’76, Dean Emily spent nine years at libraries Adam Dufault MAT ’08, MAEA
2013 Emeritus and Professor at the in St. Charles, MN. ’10 was appointed Episcopal
University of New Orleans, is Moderator of Catholic Education
Karla Bayas, Molly Brauer and the winner of the Association of Tracie Padal MLIS ’09 is the win- and Superintendent of Schools
Marco Rodriguez College and Research Libraries ner of the 2018 Grand Prize for for the Catholic Diocese of Co-
Class Agents (ACRL) Instruction Sections (IS) Poetry from the TallGrass Writers lumbus, April 30. A native of the
Miriam Dudley Instruction Librar- Guild, a Chicago-based indepen- Chicago area, Adam oversees the
Dustin and Stephanie Ciura ian Award. The honor recognizes dent arts organization. This is the operations of 11 high schools and
Sneath welcomed a baby girl, a librarian who has made a signif- third time she has won the Grand 42 elementary schools within the
Madeline Marie, on 1/31/18. icant contribution to the advance- Prize in Poetry from the TallGrass 23-county Diocese.
ment of instruction in a college or Writers Guild.
2015 research library environment. Eve Ewing MAT ’09, creative
J. Zachary Holt MLIS ’11 is the scholar, delivered the Kenneth A.
Tanner Strong and Katie Schmidt Susan Roman MALS ’76, Dean new Director of the Galesburg Pub- Spencer Lecture at the Univer-
Class Agents Emerita of the School of Infor- lic Library. For the last three years, sity of Kansas in January. Eve
mation Studies at Dominican he has served as the Director of the is a poet, visual artist, essayist,
Jeanette Chavarria-Torres was University, is the recipient of the Forrest Public District Library. sociologist and educator based in
recently named to Crain’s Chicago American Library Association Chicago.
Business’ 20 in Their 20s. The (ALA) 2018 Ken Haycock Award Brennan
26-year-old is the President and for Promoting Librarianship. School of Business
CEO of DCH Construction &
Susan Fay MBA ’89 was named
the Executive Director of Human
Resources for the College of Lake
County. She comes to CLC from

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1. Colleen Seisser, ‘05 MLIS ’09, 1 4
was elected to the Young Adult 3
Library Services Association 2
Board of Directors. 5

2. Jeanette Chavarria-Torres ‘15 7
was recently named to Crain’s 6
Chicago Business’ 20 in Their
20s. She is president and CEO 9
of DCH Construction & Hauling,
a company she started as a
college senior.

3. Matt Litewski ’07, wed Ashlie
Giu re ’09, MLIS ’11 in Oak Park
on April 21, 2018.

4. Andrea Williams ‘08, was
recognized by Northwestern
Mutual-Chicago as Financial
Advisor of the Year, and is the
first African-American woman to
be awarded Forum Membership,
one of the company’s top honors.

5. Theresa Kaminski ’79 received
the Eugene Katz Letters and
Science Distinguished Faculty
Award, at the University of
Wisconsin-Stevens Point.

6. Ann Wach-Tomory ‘01, was
honored with an “Award for Ex-
cellence” from the U.S. Railroad
Retirement Board.

7. Dr. Susan Roman MALS ’76,
Dean Emerita of the Graduate
School of Library and Infor-
mation Science, at Dominican
University, is the recipient of the
American Library Association
(ALA) 2018 Ken Haycock Award
for Promoting Librarianship.

8. Lydia Colon Perera ‘73, a 20-year
resident of Cusco, Peru, recently
enjoyed a visit from some of her
best friends from DU.

9. Johanna Chavez Barsotti ’02,
Industry Strategist for Tribune
Publishing, was presented with
the 2018 Hispanic Heritage
Award on October 12th.

8

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BLESSED ARE THOSE WHO MOURN, FOR THEY SHALL BE COMFORTED.

MATTHEW 5:4

in sympathy

Alumnae/i Christopher Johnson ’83 Parent of Joanne Ragalie MBA ’16
Marion Miller ’83 Jeremy Royko ’17, MBA ’18
Helen Conway Forrest ’36 Jacqueline Shaffer Silveri ’83 Margaret Abu-Taleb ^ Catherine Krickl Rutz ’72
Caroline DiValerio DeVale ’37 Gloria Alexa Van Dyke MSPED ’83 Jean Brennan (T) Mary Urbanowski Schulte ’49
Lorraine Halpin Cross ’41 Judith Crowley MALIS ’84 Sue DeVale Carter ’64
Jane Wahle Murphy ’41 Cynthia Wilson MFA ’85 Lori Fisk-Conners ’85 Spouse of
Patricia Keegan Dillon ’42 Carolyn D. Brown ’86 Paul Darley (T)
Rose Marie McIntosh Duffy ’42 Sr. Jacqueline Miller, SSA, MALIS ’91 Peter Darley ’89 Janet Proteau Bonnike ’58
Florence Szot ’42 (MHS) Julaine Schueler MALIS ’91 Stephen Darley ’82 Mary Beth Chambers Carroll ’73
Sr. John Eudes Courtney, OP ’43 Sharon Gross MALIS ’93 Sarah Donnelly Dulay MLIS ’94 Madeline Kessler Cavenagh ’46
Ruth Hulburt Hamilton ’43 Mary Hagan Wajer MLIS ’95 John Franklin MLIS ’04 Frances Butler Darley MBA ’81
Catherine Salerno Smith ’44 Maureen McCarthy Gamboney MAT ’96 Warren Green* Jean Saunders Donnelly MALS ’81
Valerie Ryan Carlin ’45 David Prak ’03 Rose Guccione* Lynne McCracken Herbstritt ’63
Sr. Jeanne Crapo, OP ’46 + (FS) Susan Demaree MSW ’04 Mary Guertin ’80 Carol Anderson Kraus ’56
Betty Johnson Sine ’46 S. Randle England MLIS ’06 Michael Hattie ’80 Erin Howard Prak ’04
Joan Wilson Bramlette ’47 Robert Croston MAT ’10 Alice Heinze ’79
Yvonne DeGuire Clement ’47 Margret Wilson Sanders MLIS ’10 Peggy Horan ^ University Friends
Ann Urbanowski Conner ’47 Anne Benfield Fuller MAT ’11 Margaret Guertin Kralicek ’83
Geraldine Morrissey Redmond ’47 Beth Logan* Lerone Bennett Jr. ^
Marialyce Matthews Riedle ’47 Family member of Felice Maciejewski* Maidel Cason ^
Mary Louise Burke Burns ’48 Mary-Rita Patricelli Moore ’83, William J. Darley +
Josephine Capizzi Reif ’48 Thomas Abrahamson (T) Barbara Furlong ^
Carol Powers Blomquist ’49 Peter Alonzi* MBA ’89 Roberta Hughes ^
Cycelia Truhan Hayka ’49 Amanda Bell ’16 Barbara Sowa Nayder ’71 Roger T. Hughes +
Jane Impens Shepstone ’49 Shannon Bell ’17 Frances Nolan* Robert F. McDavid ^ (MHS)
Patricia Roney Huebner ’50 John Brennan ^ Cecelia Fahey Osborn ’81 Sr. Mary O’Donnell, OP (FS)
Naomi Feen Mitchell ’50 Mary Boyle Callow ’67 (T) Anthony Patricelli MBA ’82 Egidio “Gene” Silveri ^
Geraldine Kolasa Colton ’52 Laura Dowdle ’73 Jenny Patricelli ’84 James Sorce ^
Rose Mary Sullivan Fahey ’52 Elizabeth Fischer ^ Adrienne Sowa Poole ’80 Jean Sowa ^
Patricia McNeal Roehl ’52 John Gearen ^ Kathleen Redmond* Louis “Rocky” Trekas ^
Joan Fogarty ’53 Paul Gearen ^ Alfred Rosenbloom*
Angela Gabriel Guertin ’53 Samella Hargro* Mary Cavenagh Schlesser ’79, Note: This list reflects deaths
Adrienne Dembo Magnuson ’53 Felice Mooney Madda ’58 reported to the Office of Alumnae/I
Patricia Fitzgerald Mooney ’54 Kevin McCoyd (T) MSPED ’93 Relations between February 1, 2018
Patricia Lorson Carnevale ’55 Nicole Reinhard Nayder ’16* Elizabeth Sorce Seery ’94, MA ’01 and July 31, 2018. Please call
Nancy Hamilton Burke ’56 Linda Moretti Ojemann ’56 Margaret Foy Shields ’79 (708) 524-6286 regarding omissions
Joanne Geiger Ludwig ’60 Rita Seaman Pinkowski ’57 Lisa Fisk Snyder ’91 or discrepancies.
Fr. Angelo Ossino MALS ’60 Agnes Tierney Prindiville ’50 John Sowa ’79, MBA ’86
Doris Soper Slad ’60 Gregg Ragalie ’07, MBA ’11 Katherine Sowa-Beach ’74 The Mazzuchelli Heritage
Geraldine Lauerman Seaman ’61 Drew Rutz ’71 Nelson Tillman* Society recognizes and honors the
Susan O’Hara ’62 Cecilia Salvatore* Anthony Trekas ^ alumnae/I and friends of Dominican
Emily “Joy” Dougan Fiala ’63 Louis Scannicchio* Diana Trekas ’04 who have provided for the university
Virginia Schroeder Collins ’64 Mary Sylvester Tate ’60 John Tsouchlos ^ through their estate plans. If you
Sr. Dolores M. Boemker, SND, MALS ’65 Jamie Wilson ’90, MBA ’96 Julie Zeller MLIS ’16* have included Dominican in your
Thelma Volger Winchell ’65 estate plans or would like more in-
Donna Anderson ’66 Grandparent of Sibling of formation, please contact the Office
Jean Berkland Franklin ’68, MLIS ’98 of Gift Planning at (708) 524-6283 or
Joan Parojcic MALS ’69 Catherine Cavenagh ’10 Joan Lauerman Alfredson ’56 [email protected].
Raymond Schilling MALS ’71 Margaret Cavenagh ’15 Mary Ellen Morrissey Brouder ’59
Krystal Nitschke ’74 (MHS) Kayleen Fahey ’12 Ian Cook ’14 + Former Trustee
Shirley Williams ’76 Nekesa Josey ’07 Sandra Giannini ’65 (T) Current Trustee
David Swinehart MALS ’78 Joel Nayder ’01* Jerome Hargro* * Staff/Faculty member
Mary McCormick Dale ’79 Dana Nolan ’14 Nancy Cowel Hayden ’66 ** Student
Roger Burgess ’80 Brittany Scannicchio ’11 Phyllis Calabrese Heckmann ’47 ^ Friend
Barbara Francescon Foster ’80 Lisanne Scannicchio ’10 Thomas Krickl ’79 (FS) Founding Sister
Eileen P. Byrne ’83 Emily Tegenkamp ’09 Susan Kreuz McCoyd ’69 (MHS) Mazzuchelli Heritage Society
Linda McDonald* (NGA) Non-graduating Alumna
Linda Cowel McGuire ’69
Evelyn Ogiela ’59 Dominican Magazine FALL 2018 35
Patricia Feen Olson ’51

For a full schedule, go to events.dom.edu

Lula Washington
Dance Theatre

Diane Kennedy, OP Mother Courage The 6th Annual Caesar
Lecture and Dinner and Her Children and Patricia Tabet Poetry
Reading
“Samuel Mazzuchelli, Rose By Bertolt Brecht
Hawthorne and the Search for Eve Ewing
an American Saint” February 21–24, 2019
Thursday preview 7:00 p.m. Friday, March 22, 2019
Kathleen Sprows Cummings, PhD Friday and Saturday 7:30 p.m. 7:00 p.m.
Sunday 3:00 p.m. Lund Auditorium
Wednesday, January 30, 2019 Martin Recital Hall
5:00 p.m. A sociologist of education, Eve Ewing
Shaffer Silveri Atrium The play follows the itinerant trader is the author of Electric Arches, which
Parmer Hall, Main Campus Mother Courage as she pulls her was honored by the American Library
children and wagon of wares through Association and the Poetry Society
Dr. Cummings will discuss the lives the carnage of Europe’s religious of America and was named one of
and after-lives of two Dominican can- wars. It is widely regarded as one of the year’s best books by NPR and
didates for sainthood, including the the greatest anti-war plays ever writ- the Chicago Tribune. Her work has
priest who is honored as the founder ten and as Brecht’s masterpiece. been featured in The New Yorker, The
of Dominican University. Mazzuchelli Atlantic and many other prestigious
The President’s Holiday and Hawthorne, she believes, may publications.
Concert well be the saints our nation needs
Judy Collins: Holidays and Hits today. St. Catherine of Siena
Lecture
Saturday, December 1, 2018 Carrie Newcomer and 39th Annual Trustee “Barking to the Choir:
7:30 p.m. Over the Rhine Bene t Concert and Gala The Power of Radical Kinship”
Lund Auditorium Under the Streetlamp Fr. Gregory Boyle, SJ
Saturday, February 9, 2019
Judy Collins brings her silvery 7:30 p.m. Saturday, March 9, 2019 Tuesday, April 9, 2019
soprano back to Dominican for a Lund Auditorium 5:00 p.m. 7:00 p.m.
performance of songs of the season Lund Auditorium Lund Auditorium
as well as her greatest hits. The Acclaimed for her rich alto and
Grammy-winning singer-songwriter exquisite melodies, singer-songwriter Under the Streetlamp delivers tight The founder of Homeboy Industries,
has been a star for five decades. Carrie Newcomer is joined by folk harmonies and slick dance moves Father Boyle will share how com-
band Over the Rhine, whose mix of for an electrifying evening of old time passion, kindness and kinship are
Lula Washington Dance lyrical eloquence, emotional nuance Rock ‘n’ Roll. This signature event tools to fight despair and decrease
Theatre and melodic soulfulness have earned raises student scholarship support, marginalization. Through his stories
them a passionate fan base and celebrates world-class artists and and parables, he reminds us that no
Saturday, January 19, 2019 critical acclaim. honors champions of the performing life is less valuable than any other.
7:30 p.m. arts in Greater Chicago.
Lund Auditorium

One of the nation’s most admired
African-American contemporary
dance companies. Innovative and
provocative choreographer Lula
Washington uses dance to explore
social and humanitarian issues,
including aspects of African-American
history and culture.

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